{"id":6520,"date":"2011-05-21T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T05:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2011-05-21T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T05:41:58","slug":"bridge-bats-and-bistro-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/05\/21\/bridge-bats-and-bistro-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge, Bats and Bistro Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the late afternoon, evening and into the night in downtown Austin with Brenda, her mom and her mom&#8217;s new boyfriend. Walked around downtown and watched the bats fly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_W._Richards_Congress_Avenue_Bridge\" target=\"_blank\">Congress Avenue Bridge<\/a> after sundown before having a late appetizer dinner at the <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.intercontinental.com\/austin-dining-entertainment\/specials.php\" target=\"_blank\">Intercontinental&#8217;s Stephen F&#8217;s Bar and Terrace<\/a> with Brenda just down the street form the capitol building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the late afternoon, evening and into the night in downtown Austin with Brenda, her mom and her mom&#8217;s new boyfriend. Walked around downtown and watched the bats fly from the Congress Avenue Bridge after sundown before having a late appetizer dinner at the Intercontinental&#8217;s Stephen F&#8217;s Bar and Terrace with Brenda just down the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/05\/21\/bridge-bats-and-bistro-bar\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[171,3,59,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-1Ha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6443,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/05\/15\/marker-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":6520,"position":0},"title":"Marker 10","date":"May 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Had sort of had a dinner of drinks and appetizers with Brenda at the Hyatt's Marker 10 lounge overlooking Lady Bird Lake across from downtown Austin. 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Unfortunately it was already kind of dark for picture taking, but I tried.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Austin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6457,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/05\/17\/finally-to-rudys\/","url_meta":{"origin":6520,"position":2},"title":"Finally To Rudy&#8217;s","date":"May 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Been in Texas for four days and I finally went to Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q with Brenda for some beef brisket. 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