{"id":1065,"date":"2005-12-29T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/12\/29\/1st-first-night\/"},"modified":"2005-12-29T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T14:07:24","slug":"1st-first-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/1st-first-night\/","title":{"rendered":"1st First Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on M.J.L. Kellogg&#8217;s post, the buzz is building on the city&#8217;s 1st <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstnightaustin.org\">First Night<\/a> this New Year&#8217;s Eve. The program starts at 2pm and runs all the way to midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The first three hours are being billed as the &#8220;Family Festival&#8221; which includes a grand procession that appears to begin at the Austin Museum of Art&#8217;s Community Room, where you can make your own art flag for the parade, and ends at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s too many things going on to list them all here. You can check out all the details by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstnightaustin.org\/program\/section.htm\">section<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstnightaustin.org\/program\/discipline.htm\">discipline<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstnightaustin.org\/program\/artist.htm\">timeline<\/a>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstnightaustin.org\/program\/map.htm\">map<\/a> is available as well. Some of the highlights include a glowing dragon on Town Lake, fireworks over Town Lake at midnight, fire dancing by five different area troupes, a Segway Ballet, music from many different local drum acts of varying cultures, a film montage projected to the side of the Radission Hotel complete with building climbers(?), and a performance piece from Salvage Vanguard Theater called ReVERBerations.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like it&#8217;s going to be pretty crazy. Lots going on. At first glance, it looks like they may have overreached on the sheer number of things going on. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if they can pull all of this off. I&#8217;m definitely going to check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on M.J.L. Kellogg&#8217;s post, the buzz is building on the city&#8217;s 1st First Night this New Year&#8217;s Eve. The program starts at 2pm and runs all the way to midnight. The first three hours are being billed as the &#8220;Family Festival&#8221; which includes a grand procession that appears to begin at the Austin <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/1st-first-night\/' 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-1065","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-hb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","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=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}