{"id":14731,"date":"2013-12-16T04:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T12:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14731"},"modified":"2013-12-16T04:06:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T12:06:40","slug":"sawdust-festival-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sawdust-festival-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawdust Festival Attracts World Class Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/muffin.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>The 23rd Annual Winter Fantasy at the Sawdust Art and Craft Festival in Laguna Beach featured 107 very talented artists, including a former star golfer on the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Muffin Spencer-Devlin, who won three tournaments and more than $1 million on the pro tour, is getting to be known even more for her blown and sculpted glass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to stroke it and now I blow it,\u201d joked the energetic, humble artisan. \u201cI\u2019m still learning the art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m in my seventh year and probably have a 16 handicap,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I\u2019ve been learning the technique and I can now feel more of what&#8217;s going on.&#8221; The modest Muffin already has created some beautiful glass sculpture champion trophies for the LPGAs&#8217; Kia Classic and Ladies Senior Open Golf Tournaments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/laguna-beach-sawdust-winter.html\">Read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald The 23rd Annual Winter Fantasy at the Sawdust Art and Craft Festival in Laguna Beach featured 107 very talented artists, including a former star golfer on the LPGA Tour. Muffin Spencer-Devlin, who won three tournaments and more than $1 million on the pro tour, is getting to be known even more for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}