{"id":4941,"date":"2013-08-24T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2013-08-24T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:36:52","slug":"perth-garlic-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/perth-garlic-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Garlic Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-020-perthgarlicfest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-020-perthgarlicfest-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"20130811b-020-perthgarlicfest\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-020-perthgarlicfest-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-020-perthgarlicfest-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-020-perthgarlicfest-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-020-perthgarlicfest.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe normally visit the Verona Garlix Festival, held the last weekend in August, but this year we will not be able to make it.  So instead we travelled 90 minutes up to Perth for the first time to see their Garlic Festival.  It was great.  A two day event, bigger than the Verona event and actually two days long.<br \/>\nLots of vendors, lots of garlic, lots of fun.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-014b-perthgarlicfest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-014b-perthgarlicfest-299x187.jpg\" alt=\"20130811b-014b-perthgarlicfest\" width=\"299\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-014b-perthgarlicfest-299x187.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-014b-perthgarlicfest-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-014b-perthgarlicfest.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe chatted with Ted the Garlic Man for quite a bit.  It was nice to see him still moving around.<br \/>\nSome of the displays were very nice as well.. here is a pile of red russian garlic<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-011-perthgarlicfest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-011-perthgarlicfest-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"20130811b-011-perthgarlicfest\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-011-perthgarlicfest-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-011-perthgarlicfest-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-011-perthgarlicfest-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-011-perthgarlicfest.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs added entertainment, the Raptor Conservancy of Canada put on a show with 5 birds, including this Great Horned Owl<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-038b-perthgarlicfest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-038b-perthgarlicfest-150x110.jpg\" alt=\"20130811b-038b-perthgarlicfest\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-038b-perthgarlicfest-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-038b-perthgarlicfest-299x220.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811b-038b-perthgarlicfest.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We normally visit the Verona Garlix Festival, held the last weekend in August, but this year we will not be able to make it. So instead we travelled 90 minutes up to Perth for the first time to see their Garlic Festival. It was great. A two day event, bigger than the Verona event and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garlic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}