{"id":3925,"date":"2010-05-08T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:28:00","slug":"southern-ren-faire-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"Southern Ren Faire Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Karen and I went to Southern Ren Faire. A few observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The day was just right temperature-wise. Of course, our perceptions could have been altered by the fact they were doing a wine tasting all day. Although Karen had most of the wine, I had a few sips.\n<li>We also ran into a private tasting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbitsfootmeadery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rabbit\u2019s Foot Meadery<\/a>. Good stuff, especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.rabbitsfootmeadery.com\/detail.aspx?ID=3\" target=\"_blank\">regular<\/a> and raspberry meads and the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.rabbitsfootmeadery.com\/detail.aspx?ID=29\" target=\"_blank\">Melia<\/a>. Supposedly, all are available at BevMo. There was also a Chocolate Raspberry dessert wine, but that was too strong for me.\n<li>In the costume contest, it really wasn\u2019t that bad this year. A few female contestants (alas, the pictures didn\u2019t come out), and three Jack Sparrows. Much fewer bad costumes than last year.\n<li>We did our share to make the merchants happy. Karen got an incense pot, a new African basket (her mother\u2019s day gift), some earrings, some spices, and a second stave from a new vendor (The Walking Woods). I got a new belt, a second stave, and a batik shirt (my father\u2019s day gift).\n<li>I heard a rumor from one vendor that they are thinking of changing locations when the five-year contract on the dam site runs out. Then again, I heard from a different vendor that they will remain at the site. Guess it depends on your point of view. I still remember when it was in Agoura!\n<li>In terms of shows, we caught a bit of the Washerwomen, one of the baudy shows, Manly Men in Tights, and one of the dance groups. More than we usually catch.\n<li>I\u2019ve realized that watching <i>The Tudors<\/i> on Showtime, combined with the research that led me into, has given me greater insight into Faire. Funny how that works.\n<li>At least in the morning, I thought it was less crowded this year. I wonder how the economy has affected Faire?<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Karen and I went to Southern Ren Faire. A few observations: The day was just right temperature-wise. Of course, our perceptions could have been altered by the fact they were doing a wine tasting all day. Although Karen had most of the wine, I had a few sips. We also ran into a private <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3925\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-ren-faire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}