{"id":66,"date":"2013-06-20T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/20\/dome-will-remain-in-houston-sort-of"},"modified":"2013-06-20T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:38:00","slug":"dome-will-remain-in-houston-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Dome will remain in Houston \u2026 sort of"},"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>Houston\u2019s Astrodome likely won\u2019t be knocked to the ground, or blown to bits.<\/p>\n<p>It likely will remain standing, but not in the form that some of us wanted for it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Sports-Corp-promises-new-Dome-experience-4610316.php\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Sports-Corp-promises-new-Dome-experience-4610316.php\">http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Sports-Corp-promises-new-Dome-experience-4610316.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. says it wants to turn the Astrodome \u2013 the one-time Eighth Wonder of the World \u2013 into a convention center. It will strip out the seats and turn the Dome into a gigantic meeting place.<\/p>\n<p>The new venue will create a new \u201cDome experience.\u201d I frankly have enjoyed some of my own old Dome experience, although admittedly not too much of it over the years.<\/p>\n<p>I once took my sons to a 5A high school football playoff game there. My wife and one of my sons went with me once to a Houston Oilers NFL game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Then my wife and I went to a Paul McCartney concert there, where we sang \u201cHey Jude\u201d \u2013 along with many other songs \u2013 with Sir Paul and about 50,000 fans packed into the place.<\/p>\n<p>I feared they would tear the place down. That likely won\u2019t happen. The plans now call for $194 million to turn the Dome into a non-sports venue.<\/p>\n<p>This news doesn\u2019t excite me. It does give me some sense of relief that the grand structure will still stand, which is something of a victory for those of us who want to save the place. <\/p>\n<p>Harris County commissioners will consider the proposal next week. I hope they approve it.<\/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>Houston\u2019s Astrodome likely won\u2019t be knocked to the ground, or blown to bits. It likely will remain standing, but not in the form that some of us wanted for it. http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Sports-Corp-promises-new-Dome-experience-4610316.php The Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. says it wants to turn the Astrodome \u2013 the one-time Eighth Wonder of the World \u2013 into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dome will remain in Houston \u2026 sort of<\/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-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}