{"id":17707,"date":"2014-10-11T03:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T10:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2014-10-11T03:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T10:02:17","slug":"farewell-to-county-fairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/farewell-to-county-fairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to County Fairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/colblast.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight at the Fresno County Fair revelers won&#8217;t be lamenting that the fair will\u00a0soon be gone. Though the fair\u00a0ends on Oct. 13, 2014, it&#8217;s\u00a0not a concern. What\u00a0IS\u00a0rocking the house, however, is the Splatter Paint Party with Paint Cannons, Cryo Jets, Foam Cannons, and the\u00a0area&#8217;s hottest DJ&#8217;s playing the top hits.<\/p>\n<p>2014 has brought a lot of unique entertainment to California&#8217;s 58 counties and their fairs. The mainstay attractions throughout the decades\u00a0have\u00a0continued to champion agriculture and farm life with\u00a0livestock and baby barnyard animals, rodeos\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/thats-fair-entertainment.html\">animal performance shows<\/a> (pig races, dog tricks and turkey stampedes.) Carnivals, community contests and expos, and the latest food fads entertain, educate and feed the body &amp; mind. This weekend and next the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/california-fairs-by-date.html\">\u00a0California fair season<\/a> wraps up with fairs in Fresno, Perris and Ridgecrest closing the season out. It won&#8217;t be till 2015 that you&#8217;ll see a county fair again. If you didn&#8217;t attend this\u00a0year&#8217;s crop of fairs the good news is that the fairs will return starting in February. So long, &#8220;fair&#8221; well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at the Fresno County Fair revelers won&#8217;t be lamenting that the fair will\u00a0soon be gone. Though the fair\u00a0ends on Oct. 13, 2014, it&#8217;s\u00a0not a concern. What\u00a0IS\u00a0rocking the house, however, is the Splatter Paint Party with Paint Cannons, Cryo Jets, Foam Cannons, and the\u00a0area&#8217;s hottest DJ&#8217;s playing the top hits. 2014 has brought a lot [&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":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}