{"id":1237,"date":"2006-07-31T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T15:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/07\/31\/austins-day-of-infamy-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T15:19:26","slug":"austins-day-of-infamy-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/austins-day-of-infamy-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin&#039;s Day of Infamy &#8211; Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/austins_day_of.phtml\">wrote last week<\/a> about tomorrow being the 40th anniversary of the UT Tower Shooting. I&#8217;ve been updating that post periodically over the past week as new posts have cropped up. I&#8217;ve got a few more today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>K-EYE reports on a retired APD officer who <a href=\"http:\/\/keyetv.com\/local\/local_story_208221615.html\">auctioned off one of Whitman&#8217;s bullets over the weekend<\/a> and it <a href=\"http:\/\/keyetv.com\/local\/local_story_211124256.html\">sold for $250k<\/a>. So, if I&#8217;ve got this right, an APD officer stole a piece of evidence and then decided to auction it off 40 years later to make himself $250k. Neither of the K-EYE stories mention what&#8217;ll happen to the proceeds, but if he&#8217;s keeping it all for himself, it seems a little slimy to me.\n<li>Tomorrow has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=167572\">designated Ramiro &#8220;Ray&#8221; Martinez Day<\/a> by the Austin City Council.\n<li>I&#8217;ve linked the six-part story on News8Austin in my original post, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/news_8_explores\/ut_tower_shooting\/?SecID=552\">here&#8217;s a summary page<\/a> for all of their coverage.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lastly, thanks to the Austinist for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinist.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/28\/best_of_the_austin_blogs_week_of_july_24.php\">marking my original post<\/a> as one of their Best of the Austin Blogs picks last week.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/austins_day_of.phtml\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/austins_day_of_1.phtml\">Part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote last week about tomorrow being the 40th anniversary of the UT Tower Shooting. I&#8217;ve been updating that post periodically over the past week as new posts have cropped up. I&#8217;ve got a few more today: K-EYE reports on a retired APD officer who auctioned off one of Whitman&#8217;s bullets over the weekend and <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/austins-day-of-infamy-follow-up\/' 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","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-jX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","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=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}