{"id":568,"date":"2013-02-21T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/21\/nothing-good-happens-in-the-wee-hours"},"modified":"2013-02-21T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:23:00","slug":"nothing-good-happens-in-the-wee-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Nothing good happens in the wee hours"},"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>Maybe it\u2019s a function of my age.<\/p>\n<p>The older I get, the more old-fashioned I become. And that perhaps explains why I favor the Amarillo City Commission re-upping its teen curfew ordinance for another three years. The reinstatement appears to be a <em>fait accompli<\/em>, and commissioners will conduct a second public hearing on the ordinance before enacting it.<\/p>\n<p>Curfews are a time-honored way of helping parents police their children\u2019s behavior. The Amarillo ordinance prohibits kids younger than 17 years of age from being out between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. \u2013 with exceptions, of course. Those exceptions include whether the kid is going to or from work, or they have to be in the company of a responsible adult.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the \u201colden days\u201d we had curfews in my hometown. My parents knew what the city required and made sure I didn\u2019t break the law. The same principle applies today, correct?<\/p>\n<p>The major difference between then and now is the growing absence of strong two-parent families. And that gives the city more authority to act because parents can\u2019t \u2013 or won\u2019t \u2013 force their children to stay home in wee hours of the night.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting to me as well that the city heard no comments from anyone on the ordinance during its first public hearing on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>And as has been said so many times, nothing good rarely \u2013 if ever \u2013 happens on city streets after midnight.<\/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>Maybe it\u2019s a function of my age. The older I get, the more old-fashioned I become. And that perhaps explains why I favor the Amarillo City Commission re-upping its teen curfew ordinance for another three years. The reinstatement appears to be a fait accompli, and commissioners will conduct a second public hearing on the ordinance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing good happens in the wee hours<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}