{"id":335896,"date":"2026-06-14T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335896\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:29:11","slug":"from-the-archives-houstons-wondrous-astrodome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335896\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archives: Houston&#8217;s wondrous Astrodome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Opened in 1965, the Astrodome in Houston was billed as the &#8220;Eighth Wonder of the World&#8221; \u2013 an enclosed, air-conditioned stadium with fake grass for major league baseball. But in 1999, when the Astros left for new digs, Houston held a party to celebrate the Dome&#8217;s past, while seeking other spectacles (monster truck rallies, high-diving stunts, even chariot races) to fill seats. Correspondent Bill Geist covered the Astrodome&#8217;s history in this Oct. 10, 1999 &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opened in 1965, the Astrodome in Houston was billed as the &#8220;Eighth Wonder of the World&#8221; \u2013 an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9209,119936,119939,92268,119938,56,58,57,42750,119937],"class_list":["post-335896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-astrodome","tag-bill-geist","tag-chariot-races","tag-eighth-wonder-of-the-world","tag-fake-grass","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-monster-truck-rallies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335896","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=335896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}