{"id":48033,"date":"2021-05-15T01:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T01:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48033"},"modified":"2021-05-15T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T01:22:13","slug":"soddie-fans-get-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48033","title":{"rendered":"Soddie fans get good news"},"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\/2020\/04\/hodgetown-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42370\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hodgetown-6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hodgetown-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hodgetown-6-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hodgetown-6-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hodgetown-6-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hodgetown-6.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>So help me I thought I could hear some wild cheers coming from Amarillo when news came from federal medical experts about the mask and social-distancing mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The cheers would have come from fans of the Amarillo Sod Poodles, the city&#8217;s minor league baseball team that opens its home season next week at Hodgetown.<\/p>\n<p>Why the cheers? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relaxed the mask and social distance mandate for those who are fully vaccinated against the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>That means, if I get this right, that Hodgetown can be filled to the max with fans who don&#8217;t need to sit six feet apart from each other.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy for the fans who get to go to the ballpark to cheer the Soddies on. I hope they exercise at least a modicum of caution. How? They ought to wear their masks, even if they are fully vaccinated against the killer virus.<\/p>\n<p>I wish everyone in Amarillo the best as we all take these baby steps toward what we used to think was a &#8220;normal life.&#8221; As for the Sod Poodles&#8217; fans, they now get a chance to show the Central League &#8212; where the Soddies play their hardball &#8212; how rock-solid baseball fans act when they get the chance to cheer for the home team.<\/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 So help me I thought I could hear some wild cheers coming from Amarillo when news came from federal medical experts about the mask and social-distancing mandate. The cheers would have come from fans of the Amarillo Sod Poodles, the city&#8217;s minor league baseball team that opens its home season &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soddie fans get good news<\/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":[8347,7816,8819],"class_list":["post-48033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-hodgetown","tag-sod-poodles","tag-soddies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48033","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=48033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48034,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48033\/revisions\/48034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}