{"id":4888,"date":"2012-06-08T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2012-06-08T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T03:13:07","slug":"smoky-hill-river-fest-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/smoky-hill-river-fest-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoky Hill River Fest &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas a long, hot &#038; sunny but enjoyable day. Thanks to everyone who came out to the festival.  I started my day out at the newly established Starbucks\/ truck stop.. There used to not be a Starbucks along I-70 between Topeka and Colby (opposite ends of the state), but alas, the corporate coffee giant rears it&#8217;s pricey head to please weary travelers with their usually predictable caffeine fix, myself included. I inhaled my triple shot, hung my work, and planted my director&#8217;s chair in the dirt. My booth neighbor is a potter from Southern California (whoa, long trip..) and we chatted all day about this and that: kayaks, surf shops, running, burritos, Mexico, dogs &#038; cats, beer, art fair stories, blah blah blah. Always a major plus to have good neighbors at these things. Wind predicted for the next couple days- always a challenge with a canopy tent, but I shall deal &#8217;cause that&#8217;s all you can really do. I forgot to take my usual booth shot, so perhaps a picture will accompany my next post. Til then..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas a long, hot &#038; sunny but enjoyable day. Thanks to everyone who came out to the festival. I started my day out at the newly established Starbucks\/ truck stop.. There used to not be a Starbucks along I-70 between Topeka and Colby (opposite ends of the state), but alas, the corporate coffee giant rears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-fairs-art-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4889,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}