{"id":54463,"date":"2015-07-06T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T11:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54463"},"modified":"2015-07-06T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T11:08:35","slug":"annual-festival-celebrates-northern-michigans-cherries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/06\/annual-festival-celebrates-northern-michigans-cherries\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual festival celebrates Northern Michigan&#8217;s cherries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54464\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54464\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) &#8212; The National Cherry Festival gets underway Saturday in Traverse City, featuring music, aerial acrobatics and plenty of activities celebrating northern Michigan&#8217;s signature fruit.<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs through July 11. Air shows over Grand Traverse Bay featuring the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will be held Saturday and Sunday. Other holiday weekend events include a cherry pit spitting contest, a picnic and the Fourth of July fireworks display.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the festival, displays in a waterfront park will feature cherry pies, jams and other foods. Michigan is the nation&#8217;s top producer of tart cherries used in many food products.<\/p>\n<p>There also will be an amusement midway, parades and races.<\/p>\n<p>Among those performing in concert will be Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Foghat, the Charlie Daniels Band and &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) &#8212; The National Cherry Festival gets underway Saturday in Traverse City, featuring music, aerial acrobatics and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":54464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}