{"id":6252,"date":"2014-08-13T02:54:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/13\/ama-going-to-seed\/"},"modified":"2014-08-13T02:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T02:54:15","slug":"ama-going-to-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"AMA going to seed"},"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>At the risk of sounding like a negative Nelly, I&#8217;m going to weigh in on yet another problem that needs fixing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve griped in recent days about the shabby appearance of Amarillo&#8217; highway interchanges, and about TxDOT&#8217;s unfriendly motor vehicle access to the &#8220;Welcome to Texas&#8221; sign.<\/p>\n<p>Next up? Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>I just picked up one of my sons at AMA tonight and noticed something I hadn&#8217;t seen before: seedy grounds around the short-term parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>What gives with the airport?<\/p>\n<p>Weeds are popping up all over the place. The entrance where you pick up your parking ticket looks as if it hasn&#8217;t been weeded in weeks. The greenery around the parking structure needs manicuring &#8212; badly.<\/p>\n<p>Weeds, weeds, weeds everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Has the city run out of landscape custodial money for AMA?<\/p>\n<p>I mention this only because airports often are the only thing people remember about the cities they visit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wondering if the city has dropped the ball on the airport grounds maintenance.<\/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>At the risk of sounding like a negative Nelly, I&#8217;m going to weigh in on yet another problem that needs fixing. I&#8217;ve griped in recent days about the shabby appearance of Amarillo&#8217; highway interchanges, and about TxDOT&#8217;s unfriendly motor vehicle access to the &#8220;Welcome to Texas&#8221; sign. Next up? Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMA going to seed<\/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":[2302,3947,4936],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-interstate-4027","tag-rick-husband-amarillo-international-airport","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}