{"id":1795,"date":"2013-04-08T20:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2013-03-20T20:16:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:16:56","slug":"37th-annual-festival-of-the-maples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/37th-annual-festival-of-the-maples\/","title":{"rendered":"37th Annual Festival of the Maples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/files\/2013\/03\/perth-ontario-maple-syrup-festival.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 10px; padding:4px; border:solid 1px #ccc;\" title=\"Annual Festival of the Maples\">The grand finale to the month-long maple celebration takes place in Downtown Perth on <strong style=\"font-size:1.2em;\">April 27, 2013<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vic Lemieux spearheaded the first festival with the hopes it would bring people out and celebrate after a long winter.  His vision of a spring celebration has continued with the festival celebrating its 37th year this  April.<\/p>\n<p>On scenic downtown Gore Street and at other venues in Perth, you\u2019ll discover fantastic shops, vendors offering award-winning maple products, displays, stage entertainment, lots of kids\u2019 activities and more.<\/p>\n<p>This annual event is hosted by the Perth &#038; District Chamber of Commerce and touts the fact Lanark County is the maple syrup capital of Ontario. The funds raised from the festival help keep the festival going as well as other chamber initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Maple products and taffy sales, displays of maple syrup production, maple awards, entertainment, petting zoo, children\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grand finale to the month-long maple celebration takes place in Downtown Perth on April 27, 2013. Mr. Vic Lemieux&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,325],"tags":[543,544,1036],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perth-ontario-events","category-perth-ontario-festivals","tag-37th-annual-festival-of-the-maples","tag-perth-district-chamber-of-commerce","tag-perth-ontario"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-sX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}