{"id":938,"date":"2004-10-12T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2004\/10\/12\/ball-dogs-and-spelling\/"},"modified":"2004-10-12T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T15:01:20","slug":"ball-dogs-and-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/ball-dogs-and-spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball, dogs and spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d throw out a few cool things to do this week.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bluedog_spay.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/images\/bluedog_spay.gif?resize=150%2C87\" width=\"150\" height=\"87\">Tomorrow night, there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/events\/spellingbee\/\">Third Annual Chronicle-Fado Adult Spelling Bee<\/a> benefitting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.austin.tx.us\/library\">Austin Public Library<\/a>. There&#8217;s also a screening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinfilm.org\/txdoctour\/smallball.php\">Small Ball<\/a>,  a documentary about a little league team from Aptos, California trying to reach the World Series in the summer of 2002. The filmmakers will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluedogrescue.com\/dogtoberfest.htm\">Dogtoberfest<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingermanpub.com\/austin\/a-frame.html\">Gingerman<\/a> benefitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluedogrescue.com\/\">Blue Dog Rescue<\/a>. They&#8217;ve had a benefit for the past several years, but this one promises to be the largest yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d throw out a few cool things to do this week. Tomorrow night, there&#8217;s the Third Annual Chronicle-Fado Adult Spelling Bee benefitting the Austin Public Library. There&#8217;s also a screening of Small Ball, a documentary about a little league team from Aptos, California trying to reach the World Series in the summer of <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/ball-dogs-and-spelling\/' 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-938","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-f8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}