{"id":42339,"date":"2020-04-20T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42339"},"modified":"2020-04-20T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T01:00:34","slug":"happy-trails-part-180-bring-on-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42339","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 180: Bring on the park!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=retirement%20%23PrincetonTX%20%23PrincetonCityCouncil&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42340\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Retirement-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Retirement-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Retirement-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Retirement-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Retirement.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blog post might not be of general interest, but those of you who have moved to your <em>&#8220;forever home&#8221;<\/em> might appreciate that I am smiling a bit while I write this brief message.<\/p>\n<p>We moved to Princeton, Texas, a little more than a year ago. We settled into a new home in a subdivision that is still under construction. Just a bit south of us &#8212; about a block or so away &#8212; is a large tract of land that eventually is going to become a park.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the city is going to build a park. Lots of &#8220;green space&#8221; will be among the homes that are popping up all around us.<\/p>\n<p>The Princeton City Council recently approved a design contract of $120,550 to start development of the park. Kimley-Horn and Associates will design the park. Get a load of this: It will include hiking and jogging trails, a restroom, a fishing dock and pond, two pavilions and flashing lights at pedestrian crossings.<\/p>\n<p>The J.J. &#8220;Book&#8221; Wilson Memorial Park came to the city as a gift from a local landowner.<\/p>\n<p>I am unclear when this park will be finished. I never have watched a park being built in real time. This <em>forever<\/em> home we are purchasing will enable my wife and me &#8212; along with our 7-year-old granddaughter &#8212; to watch the park come into being.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to believe this is an exciting development in our retired life.<\/p>\n<p>Our retirement journey brought us here for a singular purpose, to be near our granddaughter. She loves to play outdoors when she comes over. I hope she maintains that keen interest while we watch the park being developed.<\/p>\n<p>I do know that her grandmother and I will enjoy the park as we continue to enjoy retired life.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=retirement%20%23PrincetonTX%20%23PrincetonCityCouncil&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post might not be of general interest, but those of you who have moved to your &#8220;forever home&#8221; might appreciate that I am smiling a bit while I write this brief message. We moved to Princeton, Texas, a little more than a year ago. We settled into a new home in a subdivision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 180: Bring on the park!<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8983,3920],"class_list":["post-42339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-princeton-city-council","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42339","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=42339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42341,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42339\/revisions\/42341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}