{"id":51505,"date":"2022-05-06T12:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51505"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:37:33","slug":"mother-neff-would-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51505","title":{"rendered":"Mother Neff would be proud"},"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>MOTHER NEFF STATE PARK, Texas<\/strong> &#8212; I have spoken glowingly about the Texas state parks system, its amenities and all the recreational opportunties they offer to retirees &#8230; such as my wife and me.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I want to take a brief moment to speak about something you might find weird. Too bad. Here goes anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We came to Mother Neff State Park in Coryell County for a brief outing in our new travel trailer. I had to use a restroom. What I saw when I entered was stunning.<\/p>\n<p>The public restroom was immaculate. As in <em>eat-off-the-floor<\/em> clean, man.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to see a picture of the place to get the idea. Just know that the Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife Department is on the job keeping these public facilities suitable for, um &#8230; the public!<\/p>\n<p>I took a moment to thank a park ranger who happened to be nearby. He accepted my thanks with gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I want to proclaim that TP&amp;W is worth the investment Texans are making.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>MOTHER NEFF STATE PARK, Texas &#8212; I have spoken glowingly about the Texas state parks system, its amenities and all the recreational opportunties they offer to retirees &#8230; such as my wife and me. Today, I want to take a brief moment to speak about something you might find weird. Too bad. Here goes anyway. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother Neff would be proud<\/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":[3920,6910],"class_list":["post-51505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement","tag-tpw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51505","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=51505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51506,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51505\/revisions\/51506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}