{"id":566,"date":"2016-05-12T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/?p=566"},"modified":"2016-05-12T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:09:31","slug":"2016-finn-american-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"2016 Finn-American Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/nasellefinnfest.com\/2016-festival\/\">Finn Fest website<\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The theme for this year\u2019s festival is \u201cMy Finnish Memories.\u201d\u00a0 The Washington State Arts Commission considers our festival one of the most authentic folk life festivals in the state.\u00a0The dates for this years festival lies on July 29th \u2013 31st, and a Golf Tournament will be held on the 28th of July.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Attendees will\u00a0enjoy music, dance, exhibits, lectures, films, food demonstrations, kantele and genealogy workshops as well as sample authentic foods from the numerous vendors.\u00a0 They can participate in the Paavo Nurmi Run\/Walk, wife carry contest, and the Nokia phone toss.\u00a0 Those who love to shop can find many a treasure in the Tori (marketplace). A large photo exhibit focuses on the history of the area and on our treasured ancestors.\u00a0 Special activities for children are always included.\u00a0 Sunday the exhibits, the food booths, and the Tori are not open, but there is always a large crowd at the nondenominational worship service on the Rueben Penttila field and for the coffee and pulla served afterwards.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">As plans are finalized, the registration forms for the Golf Tournament and the Paavo Nurmi Run\/Walk will be available on out\u00a0website.\u00a0The daily schedule of events will also be posted when get closer to the festival dates.<\/span><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-565\" src=\"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-festival.jpg\" alt=\"2016-festival\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-festival.jpg 600w, http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-festival-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Finn Fest website&#8211; &#8220;The theme for this year\u2019s festival is \u201cMy Finnish Memories.\u201d\u00a0 The Washington State Arts Commission considers our festival one of the most authentic folk life festivals in the state.\u00a0The dates for this years festival lies on July 29th \u2013 31st, and a Golf Tournament will be held on the 28th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/graysrivergrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}