{"id":806,"date":"2006-04-10T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=806"},"modified":"2006-04-10T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T18:47:00","slug":"socal-renfaire-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"SoCal RenFaire In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Gabriel Tribune <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/news\/ci_3690277\" target=\"_blank\">writes up the opening day<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renfair.com\/socal\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoCal Ren Faire<\/a>. Not the best writeup: it focussed more on the clothing and the reactions thereto than the faire itself: &#8220;The men in tights, ladies overflowing from their corsets, humorous insults, double entendre and the Queen&#8217;s English can come as a surprise to patrons. [&#8230;] Elizabethan women displayed their bountiful bosoms so prominently. [&#8230;] I think that the husbands might be focused on them more than the kids [&#8230;] a commonly trumpeted theme is &#8220;go forth and misbehave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This really ties with something <a href=\"http:\/\/six_gun_samurai.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">six_gun_samurai<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/six-gun-samurai.livejournal.com\/326242.html#cutid1\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about<\/a> a recent television program on Faire, which seemed to emphasize the notion that &#8220;It&#8217;s a place to do what you want without worrying about the consequences.&#8221; Perhaps this is what the promoters want to convey. Although perhaps more fun visually, it surely will destroy what made Faire special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Gabriel Tribune writes up the opening day of the SoCal Ren Faire. Not the best writeup: it focussed more on the clothing and the reactions thereto than the faire itself: &#8220;The men in tights, ladies overflowing from their corsets, humorous insults, double entendre and the Queen&#8217;s English can come as a surprise to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=806\">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-806","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\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}