{"id":55310,"date":"2023-06-26T03:07:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T03:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55310"},"modified":"2023-06-26T03:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T03:07:19","slug":"have-to-wait-for-tee-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55310","title":{"rendered":"Have to wait for tee time"},"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>Dang it! I was looking forward to teeing it up later this week with some fellows who attend a church I recently joined.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s another turn on my retirement journey. I had (more or less) given up the game of golf. But today I dusted off my clubs, hit the driving range to pound at a bucket of balls and made two quick discoveries.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>I haven&#8217;t forgotten how to hit a golf ball.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>My right shoulder that had been giving me fits allows me to take a full swing with a golf club.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Then came the bad news. The weather forecast for the date of our golf event in McKinney has the temps hitting 105 degrees with a heat index surpassing 110.<\/p>\n<p>The fellow who coordinated the event asked all of us for our thoughts. It&#8217;s too hot, we said in unison. He called it off.<\/p>\n<p>Jeez! It&#8217;s not even July yet! Damn climate change!<\/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>Dang it! I was looking forward to teeing it up later this week with some fellows who attend a church I recently joined. Yes, it&#8217;s another turn on my retirement journey. I had (more or less) given up the game of golf. But today I dusted off my clubs, hit the driving range to pound &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have to wait for tee time<\/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":[1027,8887],"class_list":["post-55310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-climate-change","tag-north-texas-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55310","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=55310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55311,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55310\/revisions\/55311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}