{"id":3739,"date":"2013-08-14T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2013-08-14T12:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:56:57","slug":"not-so-extreme-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/not-so-extreme-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so Extreme Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, the Iowa State Fair has offered half-price admission on the last day of the fair, and certain days after 5 PM, and advertised it as such.<\/p>\n<p>This year, now that a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2013\/01\/19\/state-fair-ticket-prices-increase\/article\">ticket has risen to $11<\/a>, Sundays and evenings aren&#8217;t quite half-price anymore \u2014 it&#8217;s &#8220;discounted&#8221; at $6. Maybe the booth minders are afraid of quarters or something.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, <a href=\"http:\/\/farmprogress.com\/story-grandstand-lineup-set-for-2006-iowa-state-fair-9-7275\">a ticket cost $10 with advance admission of $6<\/a>. In 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.yahoo.com\/iowa-state-fair-august-9-19-2007-434464.html\">the advance price was raised to $7<\/a>. This year, it&#8217;s $8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, the Iowa State Fair has offered half-price admission on the last day of the fair, and certain days after 5 PM, and advertised it as such. This year, now that a ticket has risen to $11, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/not-so-extreme-sunday\/\">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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}