{"id":192,"date":"2010-08-23T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-08-23T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T22:01:34","slug":"weekend-at-the-renaissance-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/weekend-at-the-renaissance-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend at the Renaissance Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-195\" title=\"The Joust\" src=\"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Florida-and-Ren-Faire-2010-009-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Joust\" width=\"164\" height=\"178\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Joust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chicklets and I headed to the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire this past weekend in Buckley. It was the second year at this new location and the organizers really did a fantastic job of correcting a few\u00a0of the issues from last year, mainly the trough of mud you used to have to muddle through along the food court. Now if\u00a0they could just clarify the whole corn maze information, then it would be perfect. All though my girls thought being stopped by security was incredible exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The jugglers were funny, the jewelry plentiful, and the joust lively and dangerous. A heart stopping moment occurred during the spear competition when a horse caught his foreleg on a hale bale, falling to the ground and tumbling the\u00a0Lady Maria\u00a0off the saddle and under its hooves. She was shaken, but okay, and jumped right back into the saddle to finish the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chicklets and I left with plastic swords, bottles of root beer and lots of stories that they will recreate for the amusement of anyone who is willing to watch. Besides the Highland Games, the Ren Faire is one of the favorite things I look forward to each summer and I can&#8217;t wait for next year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-193\" title=\"What is he reading?\" src=\"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC065581-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"What I like to see, a man in a fantastic hat reading\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What I like to see, a man in a fantastic hat reading<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" title=\"The Lady Maria of Portugal\" src=\"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC06554-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Lady Maria of Portugal\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC06554-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC06554-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DSC06554-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lady Maria of Portugal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekend at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adventures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39eCR-36","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}