{"id":145,"date":"2006-08-17T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-08-17T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T01:38:16","slug":"summer-of-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2006\/08\/17\/summer-of-the-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of the Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew, it’s been a gruelling summer. I have attended more county fairs in the last month than my past 26 years it seems. Not that it’s a bad thing, it’s just interesting.<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve entered the storied gates at:<\/p>\n

Wright County<\/a>
\nSibley County<\/a>
\nCarver County<\/a><\/p>\n

and yesterday two one day!
\nMcCleod County<\/a>
\nRenville County<\/a><\/p>\n

So 5 out of 83 or so, ain’t too shabby. I know I’m not a real diehard, because I’ve missed some neighboring counties that I’ve been to in the past, but didn’t get to lately. I do believe they’re all spread out enough time wise to actually visit them all. <\/p>\n

I’ve heard rumors that the Steele County Fair in Owatonna is where it’s at in Minnesota, but alas have never gone. And some crazy counties up north are so big they have like two fair within the county. Wow! <\/p>\n

Although I’ve been to a bunch, the bestest ones are the ones locally, where you stand a chance to meet a neigbor or various friends and family. You can’t really go wrong with a fair in Minnesota though and given all this fair activity, it’d probably only fitting to fit the Great Minnesota Get Together<\/a> in there as well. Good thing I’ve been saving up for a visit there for the past few years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whew, it’s been a gruelling summer. I have attended more county fairs in the last month than my past 26 years it seems. Not that it’s a bad thing, it’s just interesting. So far, I’ve entered the storied gates at: Wright County Sibley County Carver County and yesterday two one day! McCleod County Renville County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}