{"id":4940,"date":"2012-06-24T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2012-06-24T05:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T09:43:43","slug":"artfest-midwest-des-moines-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/artfest-midwest-des-moines-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Artfest Midwest Des Moines Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des1.jpg\" alt=\"des1\" title=\"des1\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des2.jpg\" alt=\"des2\" title=\"des2\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des2.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des3.jpg\" alt=\"des3\" title=\"des3\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des3.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/des3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a really great first day at Artfest Midwest in Des Moines. &#8216;Twas a bummer that it rained most of the day for the folks at the outside Des Moines Art Festival that coincides downtown, so I was very glad to be inside a dry, air conditioned building. Thanks to all you folks who came out.<\/p>\n<p>After my show was over, I headed to the downtown show where I had some friends from various parts of the country exhibiting.. and then they took me out to dinner and surprised me with a little birthday cake (with tricky self-igniting candles) afterward since I also turned another year older today, and that warmed &#038; swelled my little ol&#8217; heart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a really great first day at Artfest Midwest in Des Moines. &#8216;Twas a bummer that it rained most of the day for the folks at the outside Des Moines Art Festival that coincides downtown, so I was very glad to be inside a dry, air conditioned building. Thanks to all you folks who [&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-4940","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\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}