{"id":5707,"date":"2014-04-27T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2014-04-27T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T16:14:40","slug":"65th-annual-dogwood-festival-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/65th-annual-dogwood-festival-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"65th Annual Dogwood Festival Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ca1426-1013-Putt-Putt.jpg\" alt=\"Buster Ball of Putt Putt\"><br \/>\nThe annual Rorschach test, the Dogwood Festival Parade, took to the streets yesterday. What makes a parade? Fine looking people in uniforms, dresses, martial music, hillbilly music.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ca1426-1104-Harding.jpg\" alt=\"chip harding\"><br \/>\nMany of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albemarleso.org\/Nwhois.html\">my favorite law enforcement officials<\/a> and politicians participated in the parade.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ca1426-1051-pepsi-parade.jpg\" alt=\"pepsi figures\"><br \/>\nBuster Ball, the spokesphere for Putt-Putt was followed by the Mountain Dew can with hands. While employing images<br \/>\nthat have a national profile many of the companies participating in the parade have deep local roots.<br \/>\nThe Jessups of our local Pepsi had a long interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/historicwoolenmills.org\/fabric\/2013\/10\/11\/paul-goodloe-mcintire%E2%80%99s-rivanna-05\/\">Riverview<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ca1426-1059-tibetan-association.jpg\"><br \/>\nCharlottesville is the crazy salad without trying.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ca1426-1037-Miss-Scottsville.jpg\" alt=\"Little Miss Scottsville\"><br \/>\nLittle Miss Scottsville<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/parade\/\">Last year&#8217;s parade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Rorschach test, the Dogwood Festival Parade, took to the streets yesterday. What makes a parade? Fine looking people in uniforms, dresses, martial music, hillbilly music. Many of my favorite law enforcement officials and politicians participated in the parade. Buster Ball, the spokesphere for Putt-Putt was followed by the Mountain Dew can with hands. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/65th-annual-dogwood-festival-parade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;65th Annual Dogwood Festival Parade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[51,32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bipedal","category-charlottesville","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}