I went to the Oregon State Fair last Friday.\u00a0 It was more like a country fair on steroids than it was a statewide event.\u00a0 Certainly not like Indiana’s.\u00a0 And probably not like Illinois’ or Iowa’s or Ohio’s either.\u00a0 It had the strangest combination of food.\u00a0 Not a giant tenderloin in sight. And even if there were a variety of things on a stick, like corn dogs and berry kabobs, as well as some fair classics, like elephant ears, soft serve ice cream and grilled ears of corn, I was thrown off by the Thai and Hawaiian food booths and the one serving the yakisoba noodles just seemed out of place.<\/p>\n
The animal barns were pretty good though, what with the goats and pigs and pygmy goats.\u00a0 I got to feed apples to a long horn cow and her calf and talk to a women who was raising some call ducks that had been hatched and looked after by a chicken.\u00a0 Pretty cool ckicken, man.<\/p>\n
As fas as I could tell there was not a demolition derby, but there was a rodeo.\u00a0 And that was fucking cool.\u00a0 I saw a little barback riding, which was insane and then watched about 20 minutes of\u00a0 tie-down roping. There is nothing more butch than a cowboy on his horse roping a calf, throwing it to the ground and tying up its legs in 7.1 seconds.<\/p>\n
Finished off the night with Willie Nelson, who played for at least and hour and half. Sang every classic, voice sounding as good as ever, made a few jokes, jammed on his guitar and threw his bandana into the crowd.\u00a0 I’ve missed seeing so mnay icons when I heard Willie was coming this yea, I said to myself no way am I gonng miss seeing Willie one more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I went to the Oregon State Fair last Friday.\u00a0 It was more like a country fair on steroids than it was a statewide event.\u00a0 Certainly not like Indiana’s.\u00a0 And probably not like Illinois’ or Iowa’s or Ohio’s either.\u00a0 It had the strangest combination of food.\u00a0 Not a giant tenderloin in sight. And even if there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}