{"id":8723,"date":"2008-05-27T20:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-05-27T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:55:36","slug":"the-countdown-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2008\/05\/27\/the-countdown-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Countdown Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hot{62245692f563d27b9d36e7e01cc13940036b3fd1b9326aee961c7dac74c92b1e}20dog.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hds-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35\" title=\"hds-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hds-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>There are 101 days left until opening day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2008\/index.asp\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">L.A. County Fair<\/span> <\/a>\u2013 but who\u2019s counting? Well, we are actually! While a countdown to the big day creates some anxiety, at a certain point we all start doing it. Pretty soon our Web site will have a daily counter (which really drives us crazy, seeing it right before our eyes!). So, since we are counting down, we should make it worthwhile and remind ourselves what we are counting down to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotdogonastick.com\/\">Hot Dog on a Stick<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Giant slide<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">72 totally excellent rides<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">2 kiddie carnivals<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Hot Dog on a Stick<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">A luscious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2008\/AttractionsCompetitions\/homegardens.asp\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Flower &amp; Garden Pavilion<\/span> <\/a>featuring Escape to Hawaii<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">An erupting volcano! How cool is that! (This is so Krakatoa of us!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Watusi cattle \u2013 these always amaze me, cattle with huge horns \u2013 up to seven feet in length. They look like Tim Curry\u2019s character in the movie \u201cLegend.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/watusi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"watusi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/watusi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Hot Dog on a Stick (can you tell I love these?)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/fp\/foundations\/MillardSheets\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">gallery exhibit<\/span> <\/a>dedicated to the horse in art<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2008\/AttractionsCompetitions\/AmericasKids.asp\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">America\u2019s Kids\u2019<\/span> <\/a><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">\u201cWild Things\u201d Backyard Fun<\/em> exhibit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">There is so much. I\u2019ll keep adding to my list.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 101 days left until opening day of the L.A. County Fair \u2013 but who\u2019s counting? Well, we are actually! While a countdown to the big day creates some anxiety, at a certain point we all start doing it. Pretty soon our Web site will have a daily counter (which really drives us crazy,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,14],"tags":[63,165,427,534,614,833,1210,1222],"class_list":["post-8723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attractions","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","tag-americas-kids","tag-carnival","tag-flower-garden-pavilion","tag-hot-dog-on-a-stick","tag-la-county-fair","tag-millard-sheets-center-for-the-arts","tag-volcano","tag-watusi-cattle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723","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=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}