{"id":1822,"date":"1973-09-13T11:46:32","date_gmt":"1973-09-13T11:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me?p=1822"},"modified":"2018-07-31T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T22:04:49","slug":"west-virginia-fall-fair-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Fall Fair 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall fairs are so much fun. In the fall of 1973, I drove from Columbus, OH to West Virginia for a local fall fair. They had a firing range with antique muskets. I had to try my hand. There is a delay from the time the trigger is pulled until the powder actually ignites in the barrel and the ball fires. It took some getting used to in order to keep the aim after the trigger is pulled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me?attachment_id=1819\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1819 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Flintlock-W.-Virginia-Fair-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flintlock W. Virginia Fair\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall fairs are so much fun. In the fall of 1973, I drove from Columbus, OH to West Virginia for a local fall fair. They had a firing range with antique muskets. I had to try my hand. There is a delay from the time the trigger is pulled until the powder actually ignites in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=1822\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;West Virginia Fall Fair 1973&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,34,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accomplishments","category-forever-learning","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}