{"id":217,"date":"2009-10-20T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-02-11T06:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T12:56:20","slug":"our-state-fair-is-a-great-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/our-state-fair-is-a-great-state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Our State Fair is a great State Fair&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only it was the Heart of Texas Fair, not the State Fair. K, one of the girls in the Woman in Black, which I&#8217;m stage managing, was given some tickets at work, and she invited me and M, another girl from the play to go with her. She&#8217;d never been before, and really wanted to check it out, and since the fairgrounds are right next door to the theatre, we didn&#8217;t even have to pay for parking.<\/p>\n<p>When we got down to the end of the fairway, we came across the freak show booth; K had also never been to a freak show before, so we went in. For the most part it was a collection of live, stuffed and preserved animals of the conjoined twins gone more wrong than usual variety. One of the stuffed animals, however, was purported to be a chupacabra. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/chupacabra.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After looking at it for a couple of minutes M said, &#8220;That&#8217;s just wrong. That&#8217;s a deer butt, upside-down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table >\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/deer-rear.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/chupacabrass.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I was telling one of my coworkers about it, and he dubbed it the &#8220;chupacabr-ass&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On our way out, we saw one of those &#8220;Old Timey Photo&#8221; booths. Yet another thing K had never done (not that I had, either, incidentally&#8230; but then I&#8217;m not really one for voluntarily getting my picture taken). I agreed to join them in the photo under the stipulation that I was <b>not<\/b> going to wear anything frilly. They did have something in the Annie Oakley style, so I was happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only it was the Heart of Texas Fair, not the State Fair. K, one of the girls in the Woman in Black, which I&#8217;m stage managing, was given some tickets at work, and she invited me and M, another girl from the play to go with her. She&#8217;d never been before, and really wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-pics","category-random","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}