{"id":707,"date":"2009-08-26T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2009-08-26T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:35:12","slug":"im-feeling-bluedodger-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2009\/08\/26\/im-feeling-bluedodger-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m Feeling Blue&#8230;Dodger Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-709\" title=\"dodgers\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dodgers.jpg\" alt=\"dodgers\" width=\"126\" height=\"104\" \/>Hey L.A., the Fair is turning Blue on Thursday, Sept. 17 &#8211; Dodger Blue! That&#8217;s right, we are celebrating SoCal&#8217;s favorite team all day long &#8211; and we&#8217;re even having some special guests! Wear Dodger Blue on the 17th and receive half-off admission (you must print a coupon from lacountyfair.com). Greeting fans and signing autographs will be Mr. Dodger himself, Tommy Lasorda;\u00a0 Tommy Davis; Maury Wills; and the legendary Dodger infield of Ron &#8220;the Penguin&#8221; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-713 alignright\" title=\"stevegarvey1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/stevegarvey1.jpg\" alt=\"stevegarvey1\" width=\"113\" height=\"160\" \/>Cey, Bill Russell\u00a0and Steve Garvey. Talk about a grand slam!<\/p>\n<p>Fans attending the Dodger game on Sept. 4 will receive a voucher good for two free Fair admissions on Sept. 17. If you don&#8217;t have a voucher, then you can go to lacountyfair.com and get the half-off admission coupon. Home run!<br \/>\nSome of my fondest childhood memories are of watching the Freeway Series, the pre-season games between the Dodgers and the California Angels &#8211; matching Tommy Lasorda&#8217;s managerial skills against Jim Fregosi &#8216;s (the Fairey Blogster&#8217;s personal fave) prowess. I met him once at a western wear store in La Habra &#8211; made my teen heart flutter. What ever happened to him?<br \/>\nI digress. So, all you L.A. fans, see you here on Sept. 17!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey L.A., the Fair is turning Blue on Thursday, Sept. 17 &#8211; Dodger Blue! That&#8217;s right, we are celebrating SoCal&#8217;s favorite team all day long &#8211; and we&#8217;re even having some special guests! Wear Dodger Blue on the 17th and receive half-off admission (you must print a coupon from lacountyfair.com). Greeting fans and signing autographs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11,14],"tags":[69,126,302,351,570,614,996,1076,1166],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attractions","category-entertainment","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","tag-angels","tag-bill-russell","tag-dodgers","tag-fair","tag-jim-fregosi","tag-la-county-fair","tag-ron-cey","tag-steve-garvey","tag-tommy-lasorda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}