{"id":1942,"date":"2008-02-01T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2008\/02\/01\/weirdest-sxsw-2008-news-so-far\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:39:07","slug":"weirdest-sxsw-2008-news-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/weirdest-sxsw-2008-news-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Weirdest SXSW 2008 News So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/1866024059\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1866024059_313a43c93b_m.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2008\/02\/1866024059_313a43c93b_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Rachel Ray, the Food Network star that chef and author Anthony Bourdain loves to slam, is apparently hosting a showcase at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a> called Feedback &#8211; a feast of hot bands and tasty foods .<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not weird enough, she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/news\/48406-rachael-ray-asks-battles-holy-fuck-to-play-sxsw-party\">asked Battles and Holy Fuck to play the party<\/a> because she&#8217;s a big fan (<a href=\"http:\/\/earlboykins.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/blog-post_29.html\">here&#8217;s the evidence<\/a>). Battles has declined since they&#8217;re not doing SXSW this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Ray, the Food Network star that chef and author Anthony Bourdain loves to slam, is apparently hosting a showcase at this year&#8217;s SXSW called Feedback &#8211; a feast of hot bands and tasty foods . If that&#8217;s not weird enough, she asked Battles and Holy Fuck to play the party because she&#8217;s a big <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/weirdest-sxsw-2008-news-so-far\/' 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-1942","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-vk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","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=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}