{"id":86,"date":"2014-12-15T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","slug":"entertaining-a-new-guest-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Entertaining a Guest Who is New to Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was asked where I would take someone who has never been to Austin for a quick tour of the city. \u00a0I offered the usual suspects: Lady Bird Lake, South\u00a0Congress, Downtown, Mount Bonnell, drive Loop 360 and stop at scenic overlook, etc&#8230; \u00a0Given more time, I&#8217;d say drive to Devil&#8217;s Backbone, Wimberly, Gruene. \u00a0 I know a number of <a title=\"365 things\" href=\"http:\/\/365thingsaustin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blogs<\/a> offer suggestions, but some are quite quirky. I&#8217;m curious what you&#8217;d do on an afternoon with a friend in town who is\u00a0unfamiliar with the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was asked where I would take someone who has never been to Austin for a quick tour of the city. \u00a0I offered the usual suspects: Lady Bird Lake, South\u00a0Congress, Downtown, Mount Bonnell, drive Loop 360 and stop at scenic overlook, etc&#8230; \u00a0Given more time, I&#8217;d say drive to Devil&#8217;s Backbone, Wimberly, Gruene. \u00a0 I know a number of blogs offer suggestions, but some are quite quirky. I&#8217;m curious what you&#8217;d do on an afternoon with a friend in town who is\u00a0unfamiliar with the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[19,20,21],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-austin-relocation","tag-entertaining-friends","tag-killing-time-in-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}