{"id":171,"date":"2014-10-08T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T03:26:52","slug":"keep-austin-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/keep-austin-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Austin Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin1.jpg?resize=700%2C900\" alt=\"austin1\" width=\"700\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin1.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin1.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin2.jpg?resize=700%2C900\" alt=\"austin2\" width=\"700\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin2.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin2.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin3.jpg?resize=700%2C500\" alt=\"austin3\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin3.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin3.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin4.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin4.jpg?resize=700%2C500\" alt=\"austin4\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin4.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin4.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin5.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin5.jpg?resize=700%2C500\" alt=\"austin5\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin5.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/austin5.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I enjoy traveling more than most, but that&#8217;s not to say\u00a0I fall in love with every city I visit. I&#8217;ll gladly tell you why I&#8217;m over London, and will happily state that the appeal of Vancouver is mostly lost on me. So I&#8217;m not an easy mark.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, Austin was everything everyone says it is.<\/p>\n<p>Having never been to Texas before, Austin was probably not the most typical introduction to the state, but what we were greeted with was a vibrant\u00a0and\u00a0interesting, young and unique city. The food and bar scene was great. The people were friendly. And our four days there left me already itching to go back. Maybe some future posts will go into more detail on why that&#8217;s the case, but\u00a0I&#8217;ll leave that for &#8220;Future David&#8221; to bore you with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy traveling more than most, but that&#8217;s not to say\u00a0I fall in love with every city I visit. I&#8217;ll gladly tell you why I&#8217;m over London, and will happily state that the appeal of Vancouver is mostly lost on me. So I&#8217;m not an easy mark. With that said, Austin was everything everyone says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39,1],"tags":[59,58,65],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-travel","category-uncategorized","tag-austin","tag-texas","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidstrasser.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}