{"id":5910,"date":"2017-04-25T20:39:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2017-04-25T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:39:31","slug":"fantasy-faire-2017-an-unexpected-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5910","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Faire 2017 &#8211; An Unexpected Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tolkien Day Poster, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/33426150894\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2846\/33426150894_053d2dcb7f.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tolkien Day Poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have found myself in many a perilous situation at this year&#8217;s Fantasy Faire, escaping contagions in San Mora, escaping Elves in Kakushi Pasu and escaping Inara Pey in Fairelands Junction.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Feasting, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/33458017893\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2844\/33458017893_ba4bfc774e.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Feasting\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have done far too much escaping and not enough finding, especially the finding of mead. Today I embarked on an epic adventure that took me to <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com\/the-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fireworks, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/33884069830\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4164\/33884069830_59d3bfcc6b.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fireworks\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hill is the sort of peaceful, scenic location that seems as if it would be home to Halflings, the sort of location where you could imagine thirteen Dwarves and a Wizard entering the home of an unexpectant Halfling burglar to embark on an epic journey where we go there and back again, well some of us get back anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a place where you might find fireworks, food for a feast, and more importantly, mead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mead, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/34267869775\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4186\/34267869775_bb02cc5592.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mead\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh and it&#8217;s also the sort of place where on Wednesday April 26th 2-4pm SLT you are all invited to an <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com\/litfest\/tolkien-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unexpected party<\/a> to celebrate the work of a human by the name of JRR Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Feast, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/33458019493\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2818\/33458019493_bed026ec62.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Feast\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently there may be talk of magic rings, I would just like to point out that there were only three rings for the Elven Kings, whilst there were seven for the Dwarf Lords. There&#8217;s a moral in that story, I&#8217;m not sure what it is, but there&#8217;s a moral somewhere!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Bridge Too Far, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/33884329830\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2947\/33884329830_5537b1c981.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Bridge Too Far\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fear not if you can&#8217;t attend the party, later on at 7-8 pm SLT there will be a walk through Middle Earth hosted by Seanchai Library.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m off to\u00a0make sure the mead is well protected, we don&#8217;t want it to go to waste or anything like that, maybe I will make it magically disappear.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bridge At The Hill, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/34227827486\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4190\/34227827486_fe47b2ca60.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bridge At The Hill\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found myself in many a perilous situation at this year&#8217;s Fantasy Faire, escaping contagions in San Mora, escaping Elves in Kakushi Pasu and escaping Inara Pey in Fairelands Junction. I have done far too much escaping and not enough finding, especially the finding of mead. Today I embarked on an epic adventure that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fantasy Faire 2017 &#8211; An Unexpected Find&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[159,375,535,130,3,14],"tags":[131,1133,19,1149,1022,1148],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1xk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}