{"id":45246,"date":"2020-11-24T02:19:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T02:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45246"},"modified":"2020-11-24T02:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T02:20:39","slug":"hmm-a-good-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45246","title":{"rendered":"Hmm &#8230; a good question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVID%20%23pandemic%20%23AGNMedia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A former colleague and a friend of mine is posing a question that needs some attention up yonder in the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Mark Beilue, with whom I worked at the Amarillo Globe-News, asks:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>Just making an observation: On Monday, Nov. 23, Potter and Randall counties (combined population, 255,128) reported 623 new COVID cases. On this same date, Dallas County (2.6 million) reported 541 new cases. <\/em><em>A county with 10 times the population has 82 fewer new cases. Just asking a question: Why?<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Does anyone have an answer for my friend? Anyone at all?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVID%20%23pandemic%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 A former colleague and a friend of mine is posing a question that needs some attention up yonder in the Texas Panhandle. Jon Mark Beilue, with whom I worked at the Amarillo Globe-News, asks: Just making an observation: On Monday, Nov. 23, Potter and Randall counties (combined population, 255,128) reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hmm &#8230; a good question<\/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":[179,9257,9261],"class_list":["post-45246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agn-media","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45246","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=45246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45248,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45246\/revisions\/45248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}