{"id":35806,"date":"2019-03-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35806"},"modified":"2019-03-04T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T22:00:00","slug":"off-to-the-races-with-public-radio-station-ketr-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35806","title":{"rendered":"Off to the races with public radio station KETR-FM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well, we have a launch of a new project involving, um . . .\u00a0 me.<\/p>\n<p>KETR-FM has posted my first essay for its website. You can read it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketr.org\/post\/kanelis-teacher-raise-may-depend-patricks-change-heart\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I chose to comment on the Texas teacher pay increase that&#8217;s now under consideration in the Texas Legislature. The Senate is poised to approve a $5,000 annual raise for public school teachers; senators will send it to the House. If the House approves it, the issue goes to Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s desk for his expected signature.<\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled to be part of this new endeavor. My association now is with Texas A&amp;M University\/Commerce and its radio station, which is affiliated with National Public Radio.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a whole new gig for me. I want to give thanks to KETR news director Mark Haslett for giving me a chance to offer some perspective through the radio station.<\/p>\n<p>I feel as though I&#8217;ve been given a fresh chance to pursue an aspect of a craft that gave me many years of enjoyment.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have a launch of a new project involving, um . . .\u00a0 me. KETR-FM has posted my first essay for its website. You can read it\u00a0here. I chose to comment on the Texas teacher pay increase that&#8217;s now under consideration in the Texas Legislature. The Senate is poised to approve a $5,000 annual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Off to the races with public radio station KETR-FM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8436,3341,8437,4653,4701],"class_list":["post-35806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-ketr-fm","tag-npr","tag-teacher-pay","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35807,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35806\/revisions\/35807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}