{"id":3769,"date":"2014-09-14T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2015-03-27T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:22:45","slug":"glory-days-festival-white-river-jct-vt-09132014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/09\/14\/glory-days-festival-white-river-jct-vt-09132014\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory Days Festival, White River Jct., VT, 09\/13\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Janna and I hauled ass across the state in the rain to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/vtglorydaysfestival.com\/\">Glory Days Festival<\/a> in White River Junction. Every year, this celebration of trains, both full-size and model, features excursion rides, toy layouts, Amtrak historical exhibits, live music, food and general entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>We arrived much later than expected, about 2 hours before closing, but we did see a supremely nifty miniature steam engine in 1.5&quot; scale [1.5 inches to 1 foot]. The operator sat on top of it, feeding wood pellets into the hopper. It also had a short straightaway of track on which the operator took people for rides. I wondered what my 1:6 scale dolls would look like standing next to it. Pictures below.<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/trains\/091314\/01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/trains\/091314\/02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/trains\/091314\/03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/trains\/091314\/04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/trains\/091314\/05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/trains\/091314\/06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1680703.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1680703.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1680703.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Janna and I hauled ass across the state in the rain to attend the Glory Days Festival in White River Junction. Every year, this celebration of trains, both full-size and model, features excursion rides, toy layouts, Amtrak historical exhibits, live music, food and general entertainment. We arrived much later than expected, about 2 hours&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/09\/14\/glory-days-festival-white-river-jct-vt-09132014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glory Days Festival, White River Jct., VT, 09\/13\/2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}