{"id":1286,"date":"2011-09-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2011-09-12T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:00:00","slug":"day-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Day Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bVJIZ-SQpG0\/Tm1VHYC0wMI\/AAAAAAAADDs\/9WWM7R9EQ5Q\/s1600\/HBRenn1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bVJIZ-SQpG0\/Tm1VHYC0wMI\/AAAAAAAADDs\/9WWM7R9EQ5Q\/s320\/HBRenn1.jpg?resize=155%2C320\" width=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">My partner and I had a great time visiting the Maryland Renaissance Festival on Saturday.&nbsp; We saw some interesting shows, a jousting competition, and strolled around the grounds.&nbsp; There were a lot of vendors (mostly for food). A couple vendors carried leather products, but of the nature of which I was not interested.<\/p>\n<p>A few people dressed in period costume, but most attendees were the typical family with kids in tow&#8230; wearing shorts and sneakers&#8230; and a few of those awful flip-flops and crocs.  I saw only one other guy (who was not a performer) wearing boots.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UT8HlOVkQAw\/Tm1VHjwkMwI\/AAAAAAAADDw\/1HfOJGCE87U\/s1600\/HBRenn3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UT8HlOVkQAw\/Tm1VHjwkMwI\/AAAAAAAADDw\/1HfOJGCE87U\/s320\/HBRenn3.jpg?resize=179%2C320\" width=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What did I wear?  A pair of brown leather jeans tucked into tall brown Wesco harness boots.  I chose not to wear a leather shirt or vest, because it was very humid and rather warm.  I am not one of those who &#8220;gets into Ren Faire&#8221; by dressing in some form of costume, but it was fun to see those who did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4-hmfQxemPo\/Tm1VHk1HhYI\/AAAAAAAADD0\/4uKrHhzbPkU\/s1600\/HBRenn4.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-4-hmfQxemPo\/Tm1VHk1HhYI\/AAAAAAAADD0\/4uKrHhzbPkU\/s320\/HBRenn4.jpg?resize=187%2C320\" width=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>All-in-all, it was a nice way to spend a warm (and finally sunny) late summer day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qrt54yMkjZ8\/Tm1U6A4AnDI\/AAAAAAAADDo\/9qASnl-Z1-w\/s1600\/HBRenn5.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qrt54yMkjZ8\/Tm1U6A4AnDI\/AAAAAAAADDo\/9qASnl-Z1-w\/s400\/HBRenn5.jpg?resize=400%2C152\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner and I had a great time visiting the Maryland Renaissance Festival on Saturday.&nbsp; We saw some interesting shows, a jousting competition, and strolled around the grounds.&nbsp; There were a lot of vendors (mostly for food). A couple vendors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}