{"id":17219,"date":"2014-08-13T01:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2014-08-13T01:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:20:27","slug":"beauty-queens-and-hay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/beauty-queens-and-hay\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty Queens and Hay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/avfar.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LANCASTER, CALIF. &#8212; At the Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival this week (Aug. 15-24, 2014) it&#8217;s not easy to pick winners: the\u00a0queen\u00a0in the Miss Antelope Valley Pageant,\u00a0and\u00a0the king in the &#8216;Alfalfa is King&#8217; contest\u00a0are both beautiful in their own way. The unlikely pair&#8211;a bale of hay king and teen beauty\u00a0queen are both judged for appearance. In addition to traditional elements of the fair, the bevy of bodacious foods promises to include fried everything &#8212; KoolAid, Twinkies, Oreos, and all that wholesome stuff. Performing in fair concerts are flashes from the past such as\u00a0Kool &amp; the Gang, The Commodores, Lynyrd Skynyrd\u00a0and\u00a0The O&#8217;Jays.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/california-fairs-by-date.html\">If you pick a fair to attend this week<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale is keyed up for Mad Chad the Chainsaw Juggler, Extreme Parrots, and Horse Racing.<\/li>\n<li>Quincy Plumas-Sierra County Fair is bullish on livestock in the Junior Livestock Auction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER, CALIF. &#8212; At the Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival this week (Aug. 15-24, 2014) it&#8217;s not easy to pick winners: the\u00a0queen\u00a0in the Miss Antelope Valley Pageant,\u00a0and\u00a0the king in the &#8216;Alfalfa is King&#8217; contest\u00a0are both beautiful in their own way. The unlikely pair&#8211;a bale of hay king and teen beauty\u00a0queen are both judged for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/17219"}],"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=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}