{"id":48,"date":"2008-06-17T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-06-17T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:59:04","slug":"80-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2008\/06\/17\/80-days-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"80 Days and Counting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fair-carnival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"fair-carnival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fair-carnival-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>Yes, that\u2019s what I said. Eighty days until the L.A. County Fair. 80. Eight-zero. Ate-eeeee! My list of what I\u2019m looking forward to continues:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Hot Dog on a Stick (of course, had to put that first!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum (cool Hot Rods)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Ice-cold chocolate milk at FairView Farms<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Chamois sold in the Shopping Place (how do you wash a car without these?)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Little baby piglets in FairView Farms<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Little baby goats in FairView Farms, who climb on top of each other like little goat mountains<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Big Holstein cows in FairView Farms, waiting to be milked on site. I think they\u2019re beautiful and they already have the two best fashion colors built in \u2013 white and black<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">All the rabbits in FairView Farms, so soft, so cuddly<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">The bugs in Fairview Farms, and I don\u2019t mean the ant trail along the barn doors. I mean Mrs. Millipede\u2019s Insect Barn. They aren\u2019t cute, they aren\u2019t cuddly (unless you\u2019re a 9-year-old boy or girl who likes creepy crawlies) but they sure are interesting!<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Apple Tower drizzled with caramel<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">A Jacuzzi at a great price<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">The horse shows at Cavalcade of Horses \u2013 so many beautiful horses!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/monster-truck-madness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-50\" title=\"monster-truck-madness\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/monster-truck-madness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Ah, the list goes on. Now that we\u2019re into summer full force, the days will really start to zip by. L.A. County Fair banners will be up across our neighboring cities soon. The End of Summer Concert Series and Adrenalin Nights acts will be announced in mid-July.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s all coming together!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that\u2019s what I said. Eighty days until the L.A. County Fair. 80. Eight-zero. Ate-eeeee! My list of what I\u2019m looking forward to continues: Hot Dog on a Stick (of course, had to put that first!) Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum (cool Hot Rods) Ice-cold chocolate milk at FairView Farms Chamois sold in the Shopping&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,10,11,13,14,19],"tags":[54,72,238,329,399,433,525,614,1216],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-attractions","category-entertainment","category-fairnews","category-food","category-funatthefair","category-shopping","tag-adrenalin-nights","tag-animals","tag-cows","tag-end-of-summer-concert-series","tag-fairview-farms","tag-food","tag-horses","tag-la-county-fair","tag-wally-parks-nhra-motorsports-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}