{"id":44484,"date":"2020-09-21T01:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T01:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44484"},"modified":"2020-09-21T01:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T01:49:44","slug":"time-of-my-life-part-51-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44484","title":{"rendered":"Time of My Life, Part 51: A new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=NPR%20%23PBS%20%23PanhandlePBS%20%23socialmedia%20%23AGNMedia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Public View: Ruben Salazar\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1ueFeRbuKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I understand that Scripture tells us about new doors opening when one slams shut.<\/p>\n<p>It happened to me in 2012. A career in print journalism came to a screeching halt in August of that year. I was adrift for just a little while.<\/p>\n<p>Then a friend from Panhandle PBS got in touch with me. Linda Pitner was general manager of the public TV station &#8212; affiliated with Amarillo College &#8212; at the time. She wanted to know if I would like to write a blog for the stations&#8217; web site.<\/p>\n<p>Would I? Of course I would! With that, a career that came to an end got restarted in an entirely new form at Panhandle PBS. I was doing things for public TV that my former employer at the Amarillo Globe-News didn&#8217;t think I could do. I had joined the world of online journalism.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that I had a serious blast writing that blog and doing the kind of video blogs &#8212; such as the one I attached to this brief post. The gig didn&#8217;t last an overly long time. Panhandle PBS brought in a new GM eventually and he decided that my services no longer fit the direction he wanted to take the station.<\/p>\n<p>We parted company. That didn&#8217;t end my blogging time.<\/p>\n<p>A local CBS affiliate GM asked me the same thing Pitner did: Would I like to write for KFDA-NewsChannel 10? Of course I would, I told Brent McClure. So, he hired me as a freelancer to write features for the website. I would write them and then the on-air news anchors would introduce the features in a brief segment during the evening newscasts. They would assemble video presentations to complement the text I had submitted to the website.<\/p>\n<p>That, too, was a seriously good time for this longtime print guy. The KFDA gig, though, came to an end when budget constraints kicked in. No worries for me.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I gravitated from Amarillo to the Metroplex in 2018. The fun continues.<\/p>\n<p>Another friend of mine &#8212; who is news director at KETR-FM public radio &#8212; gave me a shout. Mark Haslett and I worked together at the Globe-News for a time; prior to that he was an executive at High Plains Public Radio in Amarillo, so we knew each other pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>Haslett asked if I would &#8212; <em>you guessed it<\/em> &#8212; write a blog for KETR, which is affiliated with Texas A&amp;M University-Commerce. Why, yes! I would! So I have been writing a blog for KETR and once again am having the time of my life.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the end of it. When we settled in Princeton, just east of McKinney and just a bit northeast of our granddaughter in Allen, I put a feeler out to the publisher of the Princeton Herald. Did they need a freelance reporter? The publisher, Sonia Duggan, said &#8220;yes.&#8221; So &#8230; she and I agreed that I could write for the Farmersville Times, which is another weekly newspaper in a group of weeklies Duggan owns with her husband, Chad Engbrock.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I have come full circle. I am now covering city council and school board meetings for a weekly newspaper, along with banging out the occasional feature article.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s where and how it all began for this old man.<\/p>\n<p>And I am <em>still<\/em> having the time of my life.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=NPR%20%23PBS%20%23PanhandlePBS%20%23socialmedia%20%23AGNMedia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I understand that Scripture tells us about new doors opening when one slams shut. It happened to me in 2012. A career in print journalism came to a screeching halt in August of that year. I was adrift for just a little while. Then a friend from Panhandle PBS got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time of My Life, Part 51: A new beginning<\/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":[9,10],"tags":[179,2978,3341,3487,3532],"class_list":["post-44484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-agn-media","tag-media","tag-npr","tag-panhandle-pbs","tag-pbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484","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=44484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44485,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484\/revisions\/44485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}