{"id":7960,"date":"2016-09-18T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T23:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2016-09-18T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T23:21:52","slug":"nothin-like-the-great-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2016\/09\/18\/nothin-like-the-great-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothin&#039; Like The Great Outdoors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the carnival rides &amp; games, farm animals and deep-fried food take center stage with Fair fans, America&#8217;s Great Outdoors is one of the many exhibits unique to the LA County Fair.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-uiSQq_4yPY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere, guests can escape from the colorful chaos of the rest of the Fair and take a step into the wilderness. Meet with foresters and rangers at <strong>The Ranger Station<\/strong>, learn how they preserve, protect and manage our public lands, like our beautiful national parks.<br \/>\nCheck out the native reptiles of Southern California, like our state reptile &#8211; the desert tortoise, and become familiar with our state&#8217;s native plants.<br \/>\n<strong>Camp Smokey <\/strong>is ran by none other than Smokey the Bear, who teaches our Fair guests about the importance of fire safety, with the help of his friends: Woodsy Owl, Mojave Maxine and Seymour Antelope.<br \/>\nLearn all about the history of the Westward Movement at our <strong>Yesterday and Today <\/strong>exhibit &#8212; from the native people of California, to the struggles and triumphs of the mountain men, and even meet two of America&#8217;s living legends: a wild horse and burro.<br \/>\nIn addition to all of these, we also have a special <strong>National Parks Museum\u00a0<\/strong>paying tribute to our National Parks Service as they celebrate their centennial birthday.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s so much to explore at the Fair this year, and just a few days left to do it. Visit <a title=\"LA County Fair \" href=\"http:\/\/lacountyfair.com\" target=\"_blank\">lacountyfair.com f<\/a>or tickets, special offers and to see more of what we have to offer this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the carnival rides &amp; games, farm animals and deep-fried food take center stage with Fair fans, America&#8217;s Great Outdoors is one of the many exhibits unique to the LA County Fair. Here, guests can escape from the colorful chaos of the rest of the Fair and take a step into the wilderness. Meet with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,11,14],"tags":[60,264,614],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-shows","category-education","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","tag-amercicas-great-outdoors","tag-dare-to-fair","tag-la-county-fair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","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=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}