{"id":1031,"date":"2010-06-03T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=470"},"modified":"2010-06-03T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:57:51","slug":"armadillas-and-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Armadillas and Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue on in the Amarillo area… \u00a0 We went to an Amarillo Dillas<\/em> (short for Armadillas) baseball game with the kids. \u00a0 (The “Dillas” play in a semi-pro independent league.) \u00a0 It was a full-house with some 7,500 fans. \u00a0 Our Jonathan, 7, got a foul ball and I took him down to the runway to get some player signatures on it after the game. \u00a0 The signatures, for the most part, were illegible. But the guys put their numbers next to their names so you could cross \u00a0reference them with the program… \u00a0 The next day we headed to nearby Canyon City, Texas, for a Memorial Day Service at Dreamland Cemetery. \u00a0 There were about 100 people in attendance in this small town. \u00a0 Bill Green, the curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, \u00a0told those gathered that \u00a0it was extremely important to study history \u00a0and to come to the cemetery often to remember those who have gone before us. \u00a0 I talked last and said that we would like to see every cemetery in America become “living cemeteries.” \u00a0 That is, each cemetery would have a building with the archived stories of those who were buried there, so we could learn more from these stories and enhance the heritage of each town. \u00a0 I then read an excerpt from an Amarillo Globe News<\/em> \u00a0 article that had appeared in the paper today about our campaign. \u00a0 “Schriner’s thoughts turned to Memorial Day… \u00a0 He said his administration would offer life long support to veterans, including opening the Lincoln Bedroom to homeless vets sleeping on the streets of D.C.” \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Afterward, a number of people asked me to sign their programs. \u00a0 I signed them, my signature about as illegible as many of the Amarillo Dillas players. \u00a0 Next to each one my signatures, I wrote: #11. \u00a0 Someone asked. \u00a0 “Oh, that was my high school football number,” I smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continue on in the Amarillo area… \u00a0 We went to an Amarillo Dillas (short for Armadillas) baseball game with the kids. \u00a0 (The “Dillas” play in a semi-pro independent league.) \u00a0 It was a full-house with some 7,500 fans. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}