{"id":48013,"date":"2021-05-13T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48013"},"modified":"2021-05-13T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:14:55","slug":"freeway-work-nearing-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48013","title":{"rendered":"Freeway work nearing end?"},"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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/detour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48014\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/detour-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/detour-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/detour.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMARILLO, Texas<\/strong> &#8212; I&#8217;ll be brief.<\/p>\n<p>We returned to our former city of residence and discovered something as we zoomed westbound along Interstate 40: The Texas Department of Texas construction crews are making visible progress in getting the job completed.<\/p>\n<p>Finally!<\/p>\n<p>My goodness it seems as if the I-40 work has gone on <em>forever and ever (amen!).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am beginning to believe, even in light of the uncertainty of so many things in life these days, that TxDOT has turned the corner on this massive lane-expansion project.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to know for a fact that my former neighbors are anxious for an end to this highway madness.<\/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>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com AMARILLO, Texas &#8212; I&#8217;ll be brief. We returned to our former city of residence and discovered something as we zoomed westbound along Interstate 40: The Texas Department of Texas construction crews are making visible progress in getting the job completed. Finally! My goodness it seems as if the I-40 work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48013\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freeway work nearing end?<\/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":[276,9708,4936],"class_list":["post-48013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo","tag-i40","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48013","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=48013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48015,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48013\/revisions\/48015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}