{"id":1443,"date":"2010-03-31T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2010-03-31T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:57:11","slug":"na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/after-objecting-to-past-bat-themed-event-mayor-489058.html\">Bat Fest<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those &#8220;only in Austin&#8221; stories. The mayor is proposing an event to celebrate Austin&#8217;s bat population, even though we&#8217;ve had an event for the past five years. However, the existing event has shut down the Congress Avenue bridge, which is a major artery, for anywhere from a day to a weekend: the mayor&#8217;s proposal would only shut down the bridge for a couple of hours on Sunday night. Plus, the mayor&#8217;s plan doesn&#8217;t involve charging admission; the existing festival does charge, although the promoter has said he plans for it to be free this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the &#8220;Night of the Bat&#8221; celebration, Adam West , star of the 1960s &#8220;Batman&#8221; TV series, will attend a June 6 Paramount Theatre screening of the 1966 film &#8220;Batman&#8221;; RunTex plans to hold a bat-themed run\/walk June 6 ; and the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau will host a private &#8220;Batini&#8221; contest for local hotel bartenders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obit watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-jaime-escalante31-2010mar31,0,7083760.story\">Jaime Escalante<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been neglecting the Nets. Sadly, they&#8217;re now 10-64, and out of record contention.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>WP<\/strong> has an article about the new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, devoted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/30\/AR2010033003850_pf.html\">Christo and Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s 1976 &#8220;Running Fence&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bat Fest! This is one of those &#8220;only in Austin&#8221; stories. The mayor is proposing an event to celebrate Austin&#8217;s bat population, even though we&#8217;ve had an event for the past five years. However, the existing event has shut down the Congress Avenue bridge, which is a major artery, for anywhere from a day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,71,14,36,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-christo","category-clippings","category-loser","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}