{"id":1949,"date":"2010-09-17T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2010-09-17T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T22:15:26","slug":"ready-for-talk-like-a-pirate-day-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2010\/09\/17\/ready-for-talk-like-a-pirate-day-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for &#039;Talk Like a Pirate Day&#039; this Sunday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/pirate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1950\" title=\"pirate\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/pirate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>International <em>Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/em> is Sunday, Sept. 19 and what better way to learn about all things pirate than at our own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2010\/entertainment\/PiratesLife.asp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A Pirate\u2019s Life \u2013 An Island Adventure<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nEight years ago, columnist Dave Barry mentioned this \u201choliday\u201d created by John Baur (Ol\u2019 Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap\u2019n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. You can brush up on your skills by visiting their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/piratehome.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">website.<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBetter yet, head out to see the Fair\u2019s buccaneers who have hitched their sails behind The Shopping Place \u2013 a fine place for plunder, aye matey? These scallywags will shanghai you into swashbuckling surprises and suspense.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PiratesOfTheSky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1951\" title=\"PiratesOfTheSky\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PiratesOfTheSky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A battle of wills is taking place in the sky above A Pirate\u2019s Life as two bands of bandits \u2013 Pirates of the Sky and the Caribbean pirates \u2013 try to claim the title of King of the Pirates. High-flying privateers swing from the sway mast of a 60-foot-high pirate ship to the Pirate Skull Wheel of Death. You can catch all the death-defying action at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. Sunday. They also perform\u00a0Wednesdays-Thursdays at\u00a02, 6, and 9 p.m.; Fridays at\u00a02, 6, 8, and 10 p.m.; and Saturdays at 2, 5, 8, and 10 p.m.<br \/>\nJoin the high-flyin\u2019 fun on the pirates\u2019 aerial adventure zip-line for a nominal fee. You\u2019ll fly 150 feet through the air and 24 feet above ground as you attempt to avoid the dangers of a pirate takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sunday, Sept. 19 and what better way to learn about all things pirate than at our own A Pirate\u2019s Life \u2013 An Island Adventure. Eight years ago, columnist Dave Barry mentioned this \u201choliday\u201d created by John Baur (Ol\u2019 Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap\u2019n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, September&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11,14],"tags":[46,936,1105],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attractions","category-entertainment","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","tag-a-pirates-life","tag-pirates-of-the-sky","tag-talk-like-a-pirate-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}