{"id":140,"date":"2012-11-01T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/?p=140"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:59:31","slug":"state-fair-adventures-2012-goodbye-to-the-original-big-tex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/2012\/11\/01\/state-fair-adventures-2012-goodbye-to-the-original-big-tex\/","title":{"rendered":"State Fair Adventures 2012 – Goodbye to the original Big Tex"},"content":{"rendered":"

We managed to make it to the Texas State Fair this year.\u00a0 Probably should have been at home doing chores, but every once in a while you just have to go have a little fun.\u00a0 The weather was perfect: 70s, light wind, and mostly cloudy until mid-afternoon – almost unusually pleasant for October.\u00a0 We saved $6 per ticket to get in by bringing\u00a0empty Dr. Pepper cans with us.\u00a0 I’m guessing that the Dr. Pepper company had a hand in this discount, so many thanks to them – the discount was enough to offset the ridiculous parking fee.<\/p>\n

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The original Big Tex, standing 52 feet tall, wearing size 70 boots and a 75 gallon hat.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Cotton Bowl<\/p><\/div>\n

This year the fair ended on a sad note.\u00a0 The original Big Tex<\/a>, the 52 foot tall talking cowboy that was an icon of the Texas State Fair since 1952 went up in flames (seen live on the news) just a few days after I snapped his photo.\u00a0 I’m so glad that we were able to see him one last time.\u00a0 His\u00a0big booming “Howdy” is always neat to hear.\u00a0 Fair officials say that Big Tex will be reborn and ready for the fair next year.<\/p>\n

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The Texas Star, the largest ferris wheel in North America.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We managed to make it to the Texas State Fair this year.\u00a0 Probably should have been at home doing chores, but every once in a while you just have to go have a little fun.\u00a0 The weather was perfect: 70s, light wind, and mostly cloudy until mid-afternoon – almost unusually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[69,177,70],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farmlife","tag-fair","tag-farmlife","tag-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/TX-Fair-Big-Tex-12.jpg?fit=2304%2C3072&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wWew-2g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}