{"id":2013,"date":"2010-09-29T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2010-09-29T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:17:37","slug":"guns-horses-tractors-crafts-2010-four-town-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/guns-horses-tractors-crafts-2010-four-town-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns, horses, tractors &#038; crafts \u2013 2010 Four Town Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"CT Renegades\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20100921\/thumb_43-20100918-420204365-_MG_5811.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>On September 18th we headed up to Somers, CT to attend the Four Town Fair &#8211; one of the better smaller country fairs in this part of the state. \u00a0Plus this fair hosts one of my favorite events to photograph &#8211; cowboy mounted shooting, something that combines horseback riding and guns. \u00a0Oh, yeah, and they also have a beer garden &#8211; something lacking in most other fairs in the state.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We got to the fair a little bit past lunchtime, and wandered around for a while, checking out the crafts, exhibits, vendors, and of course sampling the food &amp; beer. \u00a0Later in the day, we made our way down to the horse ring for the cowboy mounted shooting demonstration (info on the sport is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboymountedshooting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>), once again put on by the Connecticut Renegades (website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctrenegades.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> &#8211; photos from last year&#8217;s fair are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/connecticut-renegades-cowboy-mounted-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>). \u00a0We finished off the night with a walk up the midway, another bite to eat, and finally out the gate as the crowds of teenagers flooded in. \u00a0All in all, a great day.<\/p>\n[cpg_album:777]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 18th we headed up to Somers, CT to attend the Four Town Fair &#8211; one of the better smaller country fairs in this part of the state. \u00a0Plus this fair hosts one of my favorite events to photograph &#8211; cowboy mounted shooting, something that combines horseback riding and guns. \u00a0Oh, yeah, and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,4,31],"tags":[14,338,136,339,137,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-2013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-equine-photography","7":"category-event-photography","8":"category-night-photography","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-connecticut-renegades","11":"tag-country-fair","12":"tag-cowboy-mounted-shooting","13":"tag-equine","14":"tag-four-town-fair","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}