{"id":389368,"date":"2026-07-07T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:32:30","slug":"lamenting-the-decline-of-a-county-fair-tradition-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389368\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamenting the decline of a county fair tradition \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cJunior livestock show is no longer special\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/02\/opinion-fair-should-bring-back-what-made-junior-livestock-show-special\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 2<\/a>): Pat Baker is right about the livestock show.\u00a0 Other than frilly pigeons and one cow lying down chewing its cud, the livestock I found was limited to goats that were nearly protected from fairgoers\u2019 inquisitive eyes. The one horse was a Western store statue. Animals and their young handlers are the best part of the fair. Please expand their participation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jan Hawkins, University City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cJunior livestock show is no longer special\u201d (July 2): Pat Baker is right about the livestock show.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-389368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}