{"id":115889,"date":"2026-01-08T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:46:22","slug":"handmade-bollard-buddies-add-a-touch-of-whimsy-to-beach-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115889\/","title":{"rendered":"Handmade \u2018bollard buddies\u2019 add a touch of whimsy to beach park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bollard buddies tradition continues. Volunteers dressed 280 Port Aransas beach bollards in custom-made costumes on Monday, Jan. 5, creating an eye-catching display throughout much of I.B. Magee Jr. Beach Park. Developed largely by people with knitting and crocheting skills, the bollard buddies sport a wide variety of fanciful looks. There\u2019s a likeness of Batman, complete with a cape and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/articles\/handmade-bollard-buddies-add-a-touch-of-whimsy-to-beach-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/register\/single-issue-purchase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase Single Issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full version of this story will be available to all readers after\u00a02 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Full versions of news stories from the most recent 2 weeks are available to online subscribers only. Access to full versions of news stories from issues older than 2 weeks are available to all readers for free in our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portasouthjettywp.our-hometown.com\/port-aransas-south-jetty-archives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archive<\/a>\u00a0of all issues.<\/p>\n<p>Not an online subscriber yet?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portasouthjettywp.our-hometown.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Here<\/a><br \/>Purchase this online single issue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/register\/single-issue-purchase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bollard buddies tradition continues. Volunteers dressed 280 Port Aransas beach bollards in custom-made costumes on Monday, Jan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-115889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}