{"id":1206,"date":"2010-09-06T13:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2010-09-06T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:41:16","slug":"minnesota-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/minnesota-state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We headed to the great Minnesota get-together, otherwise known as the State Fair, on Sunday! Getting there bright and early at 9am was the way to go as we beat the massive crowds by a few hours and eased into our day of looking at and eating all that Minnesota has to offer. \u00c2\u00a0We certainly saw a lot. Some highlights included the <a title=\"Princess Kay\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Princess_Kay_of_the_Milky_Way\" target=\"_blank\">Princess Kay of the Milky Way<\/a> butter sculptures, the birthing barn, seed art, and of course, the food. Foods tried: mini-donuts, deep-fried cheese curds, pronto pup, <a title=\"twisted sister\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sausagesisters.com\/statefair.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twisted Sister<\/a>, chocolate malt, jalapeno poppers, salted nut roll, Haralson apple, minty lemonade, chicken gyro, and shrimp on a stick. You know, your typical Weight Watchers day. Griffin was a total champ (he even napped in the stroller) and made our trip all-the-more enjoyable. We&#8217;re definitely looking forward to next year!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/StoccoRoy.com\/gallery\/minnesota-state-fair\/20100905_105824_036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ZenphotoPress_thumb \" title=\"20100905_105824_036\" src=\"http:\/\/StoccoRoy.com\/gallery\/zp-core\/i.php?a=minnesota-state-fair&amp;i=20100905_105824_036.jpg&amp;w=450&amp;h=\" alt=\"20100905_105824_036\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love the chickens with the hairdos!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/StoccoRoy.com\/gallery\/minnesota-state-fair\/20100905_094238_008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ZenphotoPress_thumb \" title=\"20100905_094238_008\" src=\"http:\/\/StoccoRoy.com\/gallery\/zp-core\/i.php?a=minnesota-state-fair&amp;i=20100905_094238_008.jpg&amp;w=&amp;h=450\" alt=\"20100905_094238_008\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE Princess Kay of the Milky Way (in butter)!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/StoccoRoy.com\/gallery\/minnesota-state-fair\/20100905_114656_069.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ZenphotoPress_thumb \" title=\"20100905_114656_069\" src=\"http:\/\/StoccoRoy.com\/gallery\/zp-core\/i.php?a=minnesota-state-fair&amp;i=20100905_114656_069.jpg&amp;w=&amp;h=450\" alt=\"20100905_114656_069\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOT cheese curd! HOT!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We headed to the great Minnesota get-together, otherwise known as the State Fair, on Sunday! Getting there bright and early at 9am was the way to go as we beat the massive crowds by a few hours and eased into our day of looking at and eating all that Minnesota has to offer. \u00c2\u00a0We certainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/minnesota-state-fair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minnesota State Fair<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,13],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}