{"id":7527,"date":"2014-12-18T16:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2014-12-18T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:02:13","slug":"rick-perry-to-be-immortalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7527","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry to be &#039;immortalized&#039;?"},"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>Today is the day that the Texas A&amp;M University System Board of Regents will decide whether to name a building after outgoing Gov. Rick Perry.<\/p>\n<p>I posted a word of caution on this already.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2014\/12\/16\/not-quite-so-fast-on-putting-perrys-name-on-building\/<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping the board pulls back on this idea until after a felony accusation against the governor &#8212; and Texas A&amp;M graduate &#8212; has been settled.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long had a worry about naming buildings after living people, not to mention living politicians. Things can come back to bite the institution in the rear end. It&#8217;s happened.<\/p>\n<p>If Perry&#8217;s indictment over abuse of power and coercion of a public official goes his way and he&#8217;s clear of all charges, they can name the <em>entire university<\/em> after him.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, be careful, A&amp;M regents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Today is the day that the Texas A&amp;M University System Board of Regents will decide whether to name a building after outgoing Gov. Rick Perry. I posted a word of caution on this already. https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2014\/12\/16\/not-quite-so-fast-on-putting-perrys-name-on-building\/ I am hoping the board pulls back on this idea until after a felony accusation against the governor &#8212; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rick Perry to be &#039;immortalized&#039;?<\/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":[18],"tags":[3951,4579],"class_list":["post-7527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas-am-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527","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=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}