{"id":1009,"date":"2005-08-18T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/08\/18\/smoking-ban-update\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T20:00:08","slug":"smoking-ban-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/smoking-ban-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Ban Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/_and_smoke_it_g.phtml\">The Smoking Ban<\/a> that was approved this past spring goes into effect two weeks from today, September 1. I did a little searching around to find out if there have been any updates. There&#8217;s talk of a lawsuit from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepaustinfree.com\/\">Keep Austin Free<\/a> people with Terry Keel representing them, but I don&#8217;t see much on the website. I suppose it&#8217;s the usual practice to spring these things at the last minute to cut down on countersuits and delay the implementation of the law. I did see Randall at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerlandtexas.com\">Beerland<\/a> Tuesday night when we played there, but I didn&#8217;t get a chance to talk with him since he was playing sound man. I must say that it was relatively smoke free when we played, but I think that&#8217;s because it was early. It did get worse as the night went on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knva.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=3703088&amp;nav=PMIJdBBG\">KXAN\/KNVA covered a community meeting<\/a> quoting my former roommate, Eric, who manages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinoelcamino.net\">Casino El Camino<\/a>. There was another meeting last night and one more scheduled for Tuesday from 6:30-8pm at the South Austin Neigborhood Center. You can contact Karina Moore at (512) 972-5653 or e-mail karina.moore@ci.austin.tx.us for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if <a href=\"http:\/\/crossroads.net\/a\/2005\/08\/18\/the_circle_of_life\/index.php\">Adam&#8217;s recent post<\/a> is any indication, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovejoystaproom.com\/\">one bar<\/a> is preparing for the inevitable and buying new furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smoking Ban that was approved this past spring goes into effect two weeks from today, September 1. I did a little searching around to find out if there have been any updates. There&#8217;s talk of a lawsuit from the Keep Austin Free people with Terry Keel representing them, but I don&#8217;t see much on <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/smoking-ban-update\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-gh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}