{"id":982,"date":"2005-05-20T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/05\/20\/save-me-a-spot-in-the-er\/"},"modified":"2005-05-20T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T14:25:22","slug":"save-me-a-spot-in-the-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/save-me-a-spot-in-the-er\/","title":{"rendered":"Save me a spot in the ER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zorlac\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/photos\/zorlac_head.jpg?resize=200%2C193\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/sk8red.phtml\">alluded to this before<\/a>, but now it&#8217;s official. Our neighborhood park, Mabel Davis, is getting a skatepark. The city council <a href=\"http:\/\/news8austin.com\/content\/your_news\/default.asp?ArID=137639\">approved it yesterday<\/a>. It should be finished this fall along with all of the &#8220;soil remediation&#8221; aka &#8220;cleanup of pesticides and lead from battery casings that were dumped there when the park was a landfill&#8221;. They&#8217;ve tentatively scheduled a visit to allow folks in the neighborhood to see how that cleanup is progressing on June 21st. If you&#8217;d like to keep up with the progress, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Mabel_Davis_Park\/\">Yahoo Group<\/a> that&#8217;s been set up. Note that despite what the City of Austin Summer 2005 Aquatic Brochure says, the pool will be closed this summer because of the cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the late 70&#8217;s\/early 80&#8217;s I would&#8217;ve given my right arm to have a skatepark within walking distance of my house. I still maintain that I would&#8217;ve beaten out that damn Tony Hawk if only suburban Dallas had anything remotely skate friendly. Hey, allow me my middle-aged delusions. I still remember walking around Valley View Mall and drooling at the skate shop that was at the center near the food court.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping my 6-year-old son will appreciate what he&#8217;s about to get. I think I&#8217;m smart enough not to dig up my old Zorlac and relive old glories once the park opens, but if you see me walking around with a cast this winter, you&#8217;ll know what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve alluded to this before, but now it&#8217;s official. Our neighborhood park, Mabel Davis, is getting a skatepark. The city council approved it yesterday. It should be finished this fall along with all of the &#8220;soil remediation&#8221; aka &#8220;cleanup of pesticides and lead from battery casings that were dumped there when the park was a <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/save-me-a-spot-in-the-er\/' 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-982","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-fQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}