{"id":131,"date":"2006-07-12T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T03:15:57","slug":"small-town-big-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/small-town-big-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town, Big Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love a small town parade.  There is a certain innocence, or maybe it&#8217;s a lack of cynicism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This was the annual Toledo Washington Cheese Days Parade. It felt like the whole town was in the parade and we were there because <em>somebody<\/em> had to be in the audience.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"108-0875_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/751294461\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1148\/751294461_32119f226f.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0875_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"108-0899_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/752154914\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1316\/752154914_8a1dd5b6f8.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0899_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"108-0895_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/751301389\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1291\/751301389_a3b14d31fe.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0895_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"108-0889_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/751299589\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1395\/751299589_b016e6ff9b.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0889_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"108-0886_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/752150758\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1088\/752150758_8494bfe3cc.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0886_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"108-0885_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/751298319\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1345\/751298319_5ae5c4d164.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0885_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"108-0883_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/752149580\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1136\/752149580_50dfb864e5.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0883_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a title=\"108-0879_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/751295867\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1167\/751295867_a538fe127d.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"108-0879_IMG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"108-0888_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/752151488\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1252\/752151488_716bdd6ed7.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"108-0888_IMG\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><a title=\"108-0877_IMG by coffeejitters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coffeejitters\/751295055\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1178\/751295055_7ba39aa9a9.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"108-0877_IMG\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a small town parade. There is a certain innocence, or maybe it&#8217;s a lack of cynicism&#8230; This was the annual Toledo Washington Cheese Days Parade. It felt like the whole town was in the parade and we were there because somebody had to be in the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[768,763,771,1041],"tags":[549,5,212,210,24,211,209],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-living-well","category-creating-a-living","category-photography-creating-a-living-creating-a-living","category-life-skills","tag-adventuring","tag-cheese-days","tag-innocence","tag-parade","tag-photography-creating-a-living","tag-small-town","tag-toledo","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"768":{"name":"Adventure","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/adventure-living-well\/"},"763":{"name":"Creating a Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/"},"771":{"name":"Photography","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/creating-a-living\/photography-creating-a-living-creating-a-living\/"},"1041":{"name":"Tools &amp; Skills for Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/"}},"tags_names":{"549":{"name":"adventuring","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/adventuring\/"},"5":{"name":"Cheese Days","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/cheese-days\/"},"212":{"name":"innocence","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/innocence\/"},"210":{"name":"parade","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/parade\/"},"24":{"name":"Photography","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/photography-creating-a-living\/"},"211":{"name":"small town","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/small-town\/"},"209":{"name":"toledo","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/toledo\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-27","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":263,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/cheese-days-2008\/","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":0},"title":"Cheese Days 2008","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year 40 some odd aging friends of Papa Russo converge at his trailer down by the river to get drunk, float down the river, and then blow up their leftover illegal fireworks. 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