{"id":48016,"date":"2021-05-13T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48016"},"modified":"2021-05-13T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:54:16","slug":"soddies-home-opener-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48016","title":{"rendered":"Soddies&#8217; home opener approaches"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hodgetown-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38887\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hodgetown-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hodgetown-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hodgetown-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hodgetown-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hodgetown-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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; If only we could stay for another, oh, two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot. Why the wishful thought? I would love to sit in the stands when the Amarillo Sod Poodles begin their home season in the newly aligned Central League, a Double A baseball organization.<\/p>\n<p>Our agenda takes us away. My sense, though, as we sit so close to Hodgetown is that the Soddies&#8217; baseball faithful are chomping at their proverbial bit to sit in the ballpark and cheer their hometown team on to victory.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be with y&#8217;all in spirit.<\/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; If only we could stay for another, oh, two weeks. We cannot. Why the wishful thought? I would love to sit in the stands when the Amarillo Sod Poodles begin their home season in the newly aligned Central League, a Double A baseball organization. Our agenda takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soddies&#8217; home opener approaches<\/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":[9,17],"tags":[8347,8819],"class_list":["post-48016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-hodgetown","tag-soddies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48016","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=48016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48018,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48016\/revisions\/48018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}