{"id":951,"date":"2004-12-10T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2004\/12\/10\/holidaze\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T18:05:13","slug":"holidaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/holidaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I botched it last week and forgot to plug the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kut.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=ChristmasSingAlong2004\">KUT Holiday Sing-a-long<\/a>. We went last year and it was a lot of fun. This year was good too, although the warm temperatures made it a little harder to get into the spirit. It was either that or the cranky screaming toddler we brought with us.<\/p>\n<p>It probably doesn&#8217;t need any plugging, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.austin.tx.us\/tol\/events.htm\">Trail of Lights<\/a> begins Sunday and runs until December 23rd. Last year was the first year that we missed since having kids. I&#8217;ll let you in on a little family secret. We generally avoid the long traffic lines by parking on one of the side streets by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtual-restaurants.com\/greenmesquite\/\">Green Mesquite<\/a>, having dinner there around 6, and then walking to Zilker. It makes for a bit of trek on the way back, but I&#8217;d rather be walking than sitting in the car, especially in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/weather\/8day_forecast\/\">this weather<\/a>. (For those that read this more than a week from now, it&#8217;s supposed to be 76 and sunny on Sunday. Not that I&#8217;m rubbing it in or anything.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I botched it last week and forgot to plug the KUT Holiday Sing-a-long. We went last year and it was a lot of fun. This year was good too, although the warm temperatures made it a little harder to get into the spirit. It was either that or the cranky screaming toddler we brought with <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/holidaze\/' 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-951","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\/s3fonJ-holidaze","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}