{"id":1314,"date":"2016-12-28T04:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","slug":"after-the-holiday-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"After the Holiday Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wine. Weather. Weird.<\/p>\n<p>That pretty much sums up Fredericksburg, Texas;\u00a0\u00a0a strange little anomaly\u00a0in Central Texas. It used to be quaint and loaded with shabby chic stores\u00a0filled with dead animals turned into furniture, but it in recent years has upped its game, so to speak. One of my ongoing favorite stops is <a href=\"http:\/\/vaudeville-living.com\">Vaudeville<\/a>. I have mentioned it before and it is certainly worth investigating. Try the tea room\/cafe. Spend an\u00a0hour or so in the car driving from Austin and enjoy\u00a0wine tastings, shopping, then eat a German pastry and head back to ATX.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1316\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9093.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9093-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vaudeville_card\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9093-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9093-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9093-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9093-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9093-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vaudeville_card<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine. Weather. Weird. That pretty much sums up Fredericksburg, Texas;\u00a0\u00a0a strange little anomaly\u00a0in Central Texas. It used to be quaint and loaded with shabby chic stores\u00a0filled with dead animals turned into furniture, but it in recent years has upped its game, so to speak. One of my ongoing favorite stops is Vaudeville. I have mentioned it before and it is certainly worth investigating. Try the tea room\/cafe. Spend an\u00a0hour or so in the car driving from Austin and enjoy\u00a0wine tastings, shopping, then eat a German pastry and head back to ATX. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,138,40,305],"tags":[65,230],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desserts-and-pastries","category-dining","category-furnishings","category-lifestyle","category-travel","tag-fredericksburg","tag-vaudeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","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=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}