{"id":466,"date":"2017-05-18T22:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T02:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=466"},"modified":"2017-05-18T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T02:30:37","slug":"merion-friends-history-festival-is-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Merion Friends History Festival is this Saturday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember to join us Saturday, May 21, 10 am &#8211; 3 pm, rain or shine, for the Merion Friends Meeting History Festival. Want to know about the Underground Railroad, the Abolition Movement, the early (mid-19th century) Women&#8217;s Rights Movement? We&#8217;ll have re-enactors presenting the views of significant Quakers of that time. Want to know more about how ordinary people lived in the 1840&#8217;s? We&#8217;ll have food, children&#8217;s toys\/games\/crafts, horse and carriage rides, a blacksmith, a silhouette cutter and more.\u00a0 Want to go deep into the history and artifacts? We&#8217;ll have poster exhibits, quilts, clothing, and pictures. Always wondered what a Quaker meetinghouse is like inside, or want to know where the bodies are buried? There will be tours of the meetinghouse and burying ground.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us! See the festival brochure here <a href=\"http:\/\/merionfriends.org\/MerionFestival.htm\">http:\/\/merionfriends.org\/MerionFestival.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information about parking and transportation is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/merionfriends.org\/Merion_Friends_History_Festival_InfoDirections.htm\">http:\/\/merionfriends.org\/Merion_Friends_History_Festival_InfoDirections.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember to join us Saturday, May 21, 10 am &#8211; 3 pm, rain or shine, for the Merion Friends Meeting History Festival. Want to know about the Underground Railroad, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,21,42,38,53,10,11,81,25,9,40,79,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abolitionism","category-children","category-community","category-education-and-outreach","category-fun","category-history-of-merion-meeting","category-lower-merion-history","category-lucretia-mott","category-meetinghouse","category-quaker-history","category-simplicity","category-underground-railroad","category-william-still"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.merionfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}