{"id":1845,"date":"2007-10-11T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/10\/11\/one-week-until-austin-maker-faire\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T16:53:00","slug":"one-week-until-austin-maker-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/one-week-until-austin-maker-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"One Week Until Austin Maker Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MAKE_1184.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2007\/10\/MAKE_1184.jpg?resize=200%2C184\" width=\"200\" height=\"184\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>There&#8217;s a little more than a week left until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerfaire.com\/\">Maker Faire<\/a> at the Travis County Expo Center, next Saturday and Sunday (October 20th and 21st). According to their web site, discounted ticket sales should&#8217;ve ended <a href=\"https:\/\/store.makezine.com\/SearchResults.asp?Cat=39\">online<\/a> yesterday, but the discounted price still appeared this morning. You can also get discounted tickets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkids.org\">Austin Children&#8217;s Museum<\/a> until October 19th. My family and I have our tickets for Sunday (kids 3 years and under are free).<\/p>\n<p>Wondering what Maker Faire is? Here&#8217;s a description from their site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It&#8217;s for creative, resourceful folks who like to tinker and love to make things. We call them Makers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mayor Will Wynn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/10\/austin_mayor_declares_oct.html\">has declared<\/a> that weekend &#8220;Maker&#8217;s Weekend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Check out a promotional video from the MAKE kids after the jump.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a little more than a week left until Maker Faire at the Travis County Expo Center, next Saturday and Sunday (October 20th and 21st). According to their web site, discounted ticket sales should&#8217;ve ended online yesterday, but the discounted price still appeared this morning. You can also get discounted tickets at Austin Children&#8217;s Museum <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/one-week-until-austin-maker-faire\/' 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-1845","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-tL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}