{"id":260,"date":"2006-10-13T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2006-10-13T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T20:00:03","slug":"fryeburg-agriculture-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Fryeburg Agriculture Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fryeburg fair is after all an agricultural fair. It has lots and lots of animals on display. Maybe more people come to watch the harness racing and to ride the rides at the midway than to look at the animals, but I&#8217;m not at all sure. The barns were packed with so many visitors that it was slow walking through them to look at the animals. And there are a lot of barns!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/10\/barns.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a farm museum with old plows and other implements<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/10\/farm_implements.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pig barn was particularly crowded with people. We only got a quarter of the way down it before deciding it was too crowded for how interested we were.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/10\/sleepy_pig.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My camera takes a long time between when I press the shutter button and when it gets good and ready to take a picture. Animals often have turned around by that time, as did this prize hen:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/10\/prize_hen.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This rabbit is pretty well camouflaged against its bedding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/10\/bunny.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favorite animal in the place was the sheep with dreadlocks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/10\/dread_sheep.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fryeburg fair is after all an agricultural fair. It has lots and lots of animals on display. Maybe more people come to watch the harness racing and to ride the rides at the midway than to look at the animals, but I&#8217;m not at all sure. The barns were packed with so many visitors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fryeburg Agriculture Exhibits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}