{"id":57,"date":"2007-09-10T10:57:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-09-10T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T17:57:41","slug":"let-merriment-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Let Merriment Abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/may-pole.jpg\" title=\"May Pole\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sign.jpg\" title=\"Sign\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/jousting.jpg\" title=\"Jousting\"><\/a>This weekend we attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rennfest.com\/\" title=\"MD Renaissance Festival\">Maryland Renaissance Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 For those of you in the D.C.\/Baltimore\/VA area, I&#8217;m sure you have heard of it.\u00a0 Every fall I hear a mention or two about the Festival, but yet we have never gone.\u00a0 So after the kid&#8217;s first t-ball game on Saturday, we took off to Maryland.\u00a0 Acres upon acres of woods have been transformed into a 16th century English village.\u00a0 Apparently this festival has been in place since 1977, and has grown into a tremendous attraction averaging 12,000 attendees per day!\u00a0 Musicians, comedians and magicians filled the many stages.\u00a0 There were pubs, artisans at work (glass blowing, metal smiths) and jousting in full armour.\u00a0 It was a memorable day.\u00a0 And an extremely hot one!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/may-pole.jpg\" title=\"May Pole\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/may-pole.jpg\" title=\"May Pole\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/may-pole.jpg\" alt=\"May Pole\" height=\"275\" style=\"width: 274px; height: 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sign.jpg\" title=\"Sign\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sign.jpg\" title=\"Sign\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sign.jpg\" alt=\"Sign\" height=\"285\" style=\"width: 241px; height: 285px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/jousting.jpg\" title=\"Jousting\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we attended the Maryland Renaissance Festival.\u00a0 For those of you in the D.C.\/Baltimore\/VA area, I&#8217;m sure you have heard of it.\u00a0 Every fall I hear a mention or two about the Festival, but yet we have never gone.\u00a0 So after the kid&#8217;s first t-ball game on Saturday, we took off to Maryland.\u00a0 Acres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}