{"id":154,"date":"2008-09-09T13:07:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-09-09T13:07:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:07:34","slug":"great-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2008\/09\/09\/great-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/slide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-155 alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"slide\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>The Fair is closed today, as it is every Monday and Tuesday of our run, but we had a great opening weekend &#8211; a precursor of things to come? We hope so. The weather is supposed to be cooler this week, so it&#8217;s a great time to visit the L.A. County Fair.<br \/>\nToday, if you are reading this early, there is still time to be a Lifesaving Hero and donate blood at the American Red Cross&#8217; blood drive at the Sheraton Fairplex. Those who donate today receive a ticket to come back to the Fair tomorrow &#8211; for free! If you can&#8217;t make it tomorrow, you&#8217;ll receive a $2 discount on any future visit. The ARC blood drive continues to 5 p.m. today.<br \/>\nThere is so much coming up this week at the Fair. Tomorrow at 1:45 p.m. at the Pepper Street Stage is the Senior Ballroom dance competition &#8211; tons of fun. George Geary, Culinary Styles coordinator and chef extraordinaire, hosts his cheesecake competition at 7 p.m.\u00a0The cities of Chino, Montclair, Ontario and Upland will celebrate Community Days all day, with\u00a0a parade at 5:30 p.m. and\u00a0Community Hero celebrations at 6 p.m. in the\u00a0Stage at Park Square.<br \/>\nThere are a ton of\u00a0discounts. Wednesdays are Senior Days, with ages 60-plus getting in for $7. This\u00a0Wednesday, Sept. 10, is also a Day for Heroes, with active military, reserves police, fire and paramedics with ID, along with one guest, getting in for $1, which will be donated to the Red Cross.\u00a0Every Wednesday and\u00a0Thursday it&#8217;s $5 after 5 p.m. (Thursdays are also College Thursdays with college students with ID getting in for $5). Lots of discounts!!!<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t miss the Cavalcade of Horses show in the horse arena, the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts and\u00a0its exhibit on horses, the volcano\u00a0at the Flower &amp; Garden Pavilion,\u00a0shopping, food. Ah!\u00a0There is so much! You have to keep coming back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fair is closed today, as it is every Monday and Tuesday of our run, but we had a great opening weekend &#8211; a precursor of things to come? We hope so. The weather is supposed to be cooler this week, so it&#8217;s a great time to visit the L.A. County Fair. Today, if you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funatthefair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}