{"id":238,"date":"2004-05-03T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T04:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/hardly-worth-it-now-was-it\/"},"modified":"2004-05-03T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T04:43:16","slug":"hardly-worth-it-now-was-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/hardly-worth-it-now-was-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly worth it, now was it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/Southwest\/05\/03\/party.barge.ap\/index.html\">Yet another embarassing incident<\/a> in Austin has made national news. Coming on the heels of the Ozomatli arrests and the Jason Patric arrest (whose charges, I might add, were quietly dropped recently), we have a boat capsized by a group of people who were apparently a little too enthusiastic about viewing naked sunbathers at Austin&#8217;s infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.travis.tx.us\/tnr\/parks\/hippie_hollow.asp\">Hippie Hollow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I heard about the barge capsizing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=105811\">News8<\/a> last night and they mentioned that it occurred near Hippie Hollow, but I didn&#8217;t put two and two together until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\">CNN<\/a> spelled it out for me. When I first moved here in 1989 for college, I was dragged to Hippie Hollow by a misguided friend. He was certain that we were going to be treated to a bevy of naked bathing beauties. Reality set in before we even got halfway down the path to the shore when we passed a middle-aged man who hadn&#8217;t yet covered himself.<\/p>\n<p>Let me go ahead and spell it out for any new Austinites or tourists: Hippie Hollow is mainly populated by fortyish or older white men, probably over-the-hill hippies who feel the need to maintain their ideals, but haven&#8217;t maintained their bodies. If you&#8217;re looking for a cheap thrill, I suggest the Internet (at least until Ashcroft and his cronies take that away from us).<\/p>\n<p>P.S. How slow of a news day must it be for CNN.com to list this as one of their top stories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another embarassing incident in Austin has made national news. Coming on the heels of the Ozomatli arrests and the Jason Patric arrest (whose charges, I might add, were quietly dropped recently), we have a boat capsized by a group of people who were apparently a little too enthusiastic about viewing naked sunbathers at Austin&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/hardly-worth-it-now-was-it\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-7-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-3Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}