{"id":4052,"date":"2012-08-23T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2012-08-23T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:20:05","slug":"the-final-countdown-1-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2012\/08\/23\/the-final-countdown-1-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of today there are exactly <strong>8 days<\/strong> left until the Fair opens!<br \/>\nThings are definitely busy here on the grounds. The Fairey Blogster posted <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=3966\">a few pics<\/a> this week and things are continuing to grow! Rides are being built, bears are being moved into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2012\/entertainment\/WildernessRidge.asp\">Wilderness Ridge<\/a>, giant clocks are being installed in one exhibit, giant iPhones in another and Chicken Charlie is rolling up his sleeves and getting ready for a month-long deep fried fiesta.<br \/>\nHere are some ways you can be ready for Fair time, just like we are ready for you!<br \/>\n1. <strong>Download the (free) L.A. County Fair Mobile App<\/strong> for your phone and check out our list of entertainment and attractions for the day. You can save a lot of time with a glance at the app.<br \/>\n2. <strong>Purchase your tickets online<\/strong>! You can now purchase tickets via Facebook. Just go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lacountyfair\">our Facebook page<\/a> and find the tab saying <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/ticketmobtickets\/?initAppVenueID=3456\">Buy Tickets<\/a>. (There&#8217;s a giant arrow guiding you there.) Just select the number of tickets you would like and you&#8217;re set!<br \/>\n3. <strong>Work up an appetite!<\/strong> The last thing you want to do is show up to the Fair with a belly full of food&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat are you looking forward to this year at the Fair? Tell us in the comment section and we will be sure to blog about it!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today there are exactly 8 days left until the Fair opens! Things are definitely busy here on the grounds. The Fairey Blogster posted a few pics this week and things are continuing to grow! Rides are being built, bears are being moved into Wilderness Ridge, giant clocks are being installed in one exhibit,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","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\/4052","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=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}