{"id":41142,"count":1,"description":"Ballinger is a small town in the heart of Texas. Ballinger holds itself as county seat of Runnels County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,243 at the 2000 census. Like every other small town, Ballinger calls itself \"The Greatest Little Town in Texas.\"\nBallinger is the birthplace of former nationally syndicated entertainment columnist Lane Crockett (born 1942), who was primarily affiliated with the Shreveport Times. He has been called the \"prince of performance critics.\"\nGeorge E. \"Buddy\" West, a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Odessa who served from 1993\u20142008, was born in Ballinger in 1936.\nBallinger was home of the minor league baseball team the Ballinger Cats from the 1920s to its disbandment in the late 1950s. They were affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds from 1947 to 1950, as well with the bygone St. Louis Browns in the 1930s and early 1940s. Today, the Ballinger Cats name is back but they are members of the Central Texas Collegiate League, a...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ballinger\/","name":"Ballinger","slug":"ballinger","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=41142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}