{"id":1025,"date":"2011-04-19T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2012-01-21T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T03:19:09","slug":"the-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"The Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5062\/5628516075_403cf3f70d.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0034\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last Sunday brought beautiful 72-degree weather, of which we took full advantage by making our appearance at Washington University&#8217;s annual carnival. The fact that this production is put on by the students did not deter us from riding all the rides and eating all of the greasy carnival food. It was both boys&#8217; first time at a fair, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from Milo&#8217;s &#8220;old pro&#8221; approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5102\/5629099188_e836aaf7c6.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0037\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5262\/5629099654_e2fdb439d8.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0041\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He fearlessly went on every ride he was tall enough to go on. The Ferris Wheel did not intimidate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5229\/5628518471_cbdc724a08.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0071\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And he went on the roller coaster (noisy and pretty darn fast for a three-year-old) three times by himself. No fear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5228\/5628517253_fdfe7224c0.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0050\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While poor Oliver was pretty much doomed to watch all the fun pass him by until we found a suitable ride (the carousel) for him. But don&#8217;t worry. He cared most about the french fries smothered in ketchup and a nice greasy funnel cake, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5270\/5629100828_d6c40073ed.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0066\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Purple motorcycle to match his purple GLITTER dinosaur tattoo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5068\/5628519029_c585a81b83.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0074\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>See that kid all alone in the fourth car back with his hands in the air? <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Milo, the carnival guy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of course, leaving was all tears and despair. I think this summer we will be carnival-hopping!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday brought beautiful 72-degree weather, of which we took full advantage by making our appearance at Washington University&#8217;s annual carnival. The fact that this production is put on by the students did not deter us from riding all the rides and eating all of the greasy carnival food. It was both boys&#8217; first time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Carnival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[74,78],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-adventures","tag-mykidisamazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}