{"id":242784,"date":"2026-04-10T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242784\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:02:09","slug":"raise-up-a-glass-port-aransas-south-jetty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242784\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise up a glass! &#8211; Port Aransas South Jetty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Port Aransas\u2019 most storied watering holes is marking its 80th anniversary this month with an all-day celebration on Saturday, April 11. Shorty\u2019s Place first opened its doors to the public in April of 1946 with original owner Gladys Marie Fowler, otherwise known as \u201cShorty,\u201d and her husband Mack Fowler. Soon after, the spot became a favorite for locals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/articles\/raise-up-a-glass\/\" 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":"One of Port Aransas\u2019 most storied watering holes is marking its 80th anniversary this month with an all-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-242784","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\/242784","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=242784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}