{"id":953,"date":"2009-11-22T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/11\/22\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-11-and-12\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:04:00","slug":"twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-11-and-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-11-and-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Things I Like About Texas (#11 and #12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11. Kids &#8216; athletic fields here which are better than professional facilities in Israel.&#160; They are simply amazing.&#160; I don&#8217;t just mean that the fields have grass and lack potholes (yes, we &#8216;ve already surpassed the major leagues elsewhere), but the paths between the fields are paved with concrete, seating is provided <em>with backs<\/em>, and an awning keeps the shade off of you.&#160; I don&#8217;t have a picture of it, but once I went to a friend&#8217;s kid&#8217;s baseball game and I was absolutely floored at how nice the facilities were.&#160; They were honestly, no exaggeration, far better than the major league baseball fields in Israel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas11and12_D490\/091114304tb_DxO_raw2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"091114304tb_DxO_raw2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"091114304tb_DxO_raw2\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas11and12_D490\/091114304tb_DxO_raw2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>&#160;<em>Just the regular old soccer field in Plano, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12. We live near a major airport that makes it <em>easy for friends to visit<\/em>.&#160; My parents live in the middle of nowhere, where you have to make six connections to get there.&#160; In contrast, it is hard to fly <em>anywhere<\/em> in the United States without flying through DFW (the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dallas\/Fort_Worth_International_Airport\">third busiest airport<\/a> in the <em>world<\/em>).&#160; Yes, that is a hint.&#160; Yes, you know I&#8217;m talking to <em>you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas11and12_D490\/DFWAirportOverview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"DFWAirportOverview\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DFWAirportOverview\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas11and12_D490\/DFWAirportOverview_thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>DFW Airport<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11. Kids &#8216; athletic fields here which are better than professional facilities in Israel.&#160; They are simply amazing.&#160; I don&#8217;t just mean that the fields have grass and lack potholes (yes, we &#8216;ve already surpassed the major leagues elsewhere), but the paths between the fields are paved with concrete, seating is provided with backs, and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-11-and-12\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}