{"id":19156,"date":"2013-02-22T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19156"},"modified":"2013-02-23T00:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:36:43","slug":"swfl-lee-county-fair-starts-tonight-with-a-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/02\/swfl-lee-county-fair-starts-tonight-with-a-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Starts Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/swfl-lee-county-fair-starts-tonight-with-a-preview\/fair-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19157\" title=\"Fair Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Fair-Logo-300x173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Fair-Logo-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Fair-Logo.png 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Southwest Florida and Lee County Fair is returning for its 89th year.<\/p>\n<p>The fair runs through Sunday, March 3 at the Lee Civic Center, located at 11831 Bayshore Rd.,\u00a0North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights include new and classic fair rides, provided by Reithoffer Shows, food, strolling and stage acts, livestock shows, the Sea Lion show, and Alligator Wrestling..<\/p>\n<p>Friday, February 22, the fair&#8217;s opening ceremony starts at 4:30 p.m. at the front gate. From 5-6 p.m., guests get free admission and free rides.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On weekends, the fair opens at noon, and on weekdays, it opens at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Admission and ride specials are:<\/p>\n<p>Moonlight Madness, Fridays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.,\u00a0$25 wristband<\/p>\n<p>Harry Chapin Food Bank Night, Monday, February 25, free admission with 3 cans of food per person<\/p>\n<p>12 Buck Tuesday, Tuesday, February 26, $12 wristband for rides only, regular admission applies<\/p>\n<p>Coupon Days: Wednesday, February 27, Thursday, February 28, $2 off admission, $2 off wristband with coupons found in Valpak coupon packets.<\/p>\n<p>More information on specific show times and the schedule is available at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lcc.leeciviccenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fair website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southwest Florida and Lee County Fair is returning for its 89th year. The fair runs through Sunday, March 3 at the Lee Civic Center, located at 11831 Bayshore Rd.,\u00a0North&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}