{"id":8605,"date":"2017-09-15T20:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T02:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2017-09-15T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T02:29:30","slug":"world-war-ii-veteran-joins-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2017\/09\/15\/world-war-ii-veteran-joins-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II Veteran Joins Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today we were honored with the presence of World War II veteran Fernando A. Torres and his wife Gail Torres. The two love the Fair and have attended every year since 1966, which is where they had their first date.<br \/>\nHere are some pictures that were captured from this very special day &amp; parade:<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-weight: 300;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_0944.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8608\" title=\"IMG_0944\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_0944-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8606\" title=\"IMG_0959\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_0959-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8609\" title=\"IMG_0965\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_0965-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" \/><br \/>\nFernando and Gail have one son and one daughter, and three grandchildren who love coming to the Fair.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Fernando, Thank you for your service to this country and CONGRATULATIONS on your 51st\u00a0Fair. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today we were honored with the presence of World War II veteran Fernando A. Torres and his wife Gail Torres. The two love the Fair and have attended every year since 1966, which is where they had their first date. Here are some pictures that were captured from this very special day &amp; parade:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[420,614,908,1208],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairnews","tag-first-date","tag-la-county-fair","tag-parade","tag-veteran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","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=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}