{"id":293222,"date":"2026-05-14T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293222\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:51:09","slug":"birds-and-bucks-benefit-our-burg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293222\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds and bucks benefit our burg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This column is about birds and bucks. First, the bucks. This past week, we in Port Aransas proved once again how well we pull together as a town by investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in our community. On May 7, the Texas SandFest organization handed out checks totaling $395,850 to community nonprofits. (See story, this edition.) The money came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/articles\/birds-and-bucks-benefit-our-burg\/\" 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":"This column is about birds and bucks. First, the bucks. This past week, we in Port Aransas proved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-293222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293222","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=293222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}