{"id":250,"date":"2012-08-07T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2013-10-24T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T01:43:28","slug":"fair-life-august-7th-butter-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Fair Life &#8211; August 7th: Butter Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?cat=33\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Life<\/a>, is a featured series I&#8217;m writing on the 2012 Iowa State Fair. I&#8217;m going to try to post something different each day I&#8217;m at the fair that features some behind-the-scenes looks at different aspects of the state fair along with factual information.<\/p>\n<p>How many of you have heard of the one and only Iowa State Fair Butter Cow? How many of you have seen it?<\/p>\n<p>If not, watch the video below where I interviewed Sarah Pratt last year and talked with her about 4-H and the Butter Cow! Did you know last year was the 100th birthday of the Butter Cow? Man, that&#8217;s one OLD cow!<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s butter special butter sculpture is of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowastatefair.org\/media-center\/news-releases\/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-to-appear-in-butter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs<\/a>, along with the yearly Butter Cow. Watch for photos as I&#8217;ll try to include them in this post, but am not making any promises.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27819230\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27819230\">Sarah Pratt &#8211; Iowa State Fair Butter Sculptor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Life, is a featured series I&#8217;m writing on the 2012 Iowa State Fair. I&#8217;m going to try to post something different each day I&#8217;m at the fair that features some behind-the-scenes looks at different aspects of the state fair along with factual information. How many of you have heard of the one and only&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=250\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Fair Life &#8211; August 7th: Butter Cow&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-life","category-isf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}