{"id":358966,"date":"2026-07-02T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358966\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:01:31","slug":"texas-street-mural-near-ut-covered-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358966\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018TEXAS\u2019 street mural near UT covered overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Austin covered the\u00a0\u201cTEXAS\u201d street mural on Guadalupe Street in front of the University of Texas at Austin campus overnight with a mixture of gravel and oil, according to Jeff Stensland, the public information officer for Austin Transportation &amp; Public\u00a0Works.<\/p>\n<p>The mural&#8217;s removal, first reported by The Daily Texan, UT&#8217;s student newspaper, was removed between 3 and 6 a.m., Stensland said. The removal came after Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Transportation to eliminate \u201cnon-standard surface markings, signage and signals\u201d in October.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Texas Department of Transportation rejected the city of Austin\u2019s appeal to preserve the street art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Austin covered the\u00a0\u201cTEXAS\u201d street mural on Guadalupe Street in front of the University of Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-358966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358966","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=358966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}