{"id":1074,"date":"2015-11-30T04:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"gift-shopping-in-the-most-unlikely-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Gift Shopping in the Most Unlikely Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve complained about furniture shopping in Austin before as I don&#8217;t feel the city has enough variety at the higher-end of the spectrum. The tried and true place of choice is <a href=\"http:\/\/louisshanksfurniture.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louis Shanks<\/a> on Anderson Lane. There&#8217;s a lot to absorb in the store, but they do have a nice selection of finer items. I was really surprised to see a gift section on the second floor. The buyers have done a great\u00a0job of finding eclectic pieces at an agreeable price point. With the holidays upon us, it would\u00a0behoove you to stop by and take a gander.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1075\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7285.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1075 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7285-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Shanks' Gift Items\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7285-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_7285-925x1024.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Shanks&#8217; Gift Items<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve complained about furniture shopping in Austin before as I don&#8217;t feel the city has enough variety at the higher-end of the spectrum. The tried and true place of choice is Louis Shanks on Anderson Lane. There&#8217;s a lot to absorb in the store, but they do have a nice selection of finer items. I was really surprised to see a gift section on the second floor. The buyers have done a great\u00a0job of finding eclectic pieces at an agreeable price point. With the holidays upon us, it would\u00a0behoove you to stop by and take a gander. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[111,253,267],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-furnishings","tag-furniture","tag-gifts","tag-louis-shanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}