{"id":224,"date":"2006-08-01T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-08-01T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:36:18","slug":"asheville-living-bele-chere-festival-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/asheville-living-bele-chere-festival-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Asheville Living &#8212; Bele Chere Festival 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve been living here in Asheville, NC for two or three months now. I must say that I&#8217;m digging it more and more. This weekend was the big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belecherefestival.com\/\">Bele Chere Festival<\/a>. Some of the locals seem tired of it, but we thought we would check it out. We&#8217;re close enough to walk downtown, which is nice, because parking was not easy. There was a lot of the usual carnival-type stuff, a lot of art, crafts, and music on a number of stages. But I think the coolest bits were the street performers on the periphery.<\/p>\n<p>Young women with tattoos, dreadlocks, nose piercings, and cowboy boots playing fiddle and banjo on the street? Awesome. Could be any day in Asheville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/belechere2006banjo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-550\" title=\"Asheville Living -- Bele Chere Festival 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/belechere2006banjo.jpg\" alt=\"Asheville Living -- Bele Chere Festival 2006\" width=\"500\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joking juggler or juggling comedian? This guy was pretty funny, even if he did bust on me, twice. There&#8217;s a large crowd right behind me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/belechere2006juggler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-549\" title=\"Asheville Living -- Bele Chere Festival 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/belechere2006juggler.jpg\" alt=\"Asheville Living -- Bele Chere Festival 2006\" width=\"500\" height=\"605\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve been living here in Asheville, NC for two or three months now. I must say that I&#8217;m digging it more and more. This weekend was the big Bele Chere Festival. Some of the locals seem tired of it, but we thought we would check it out. We&#8217;re close enough to walk downtown, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,15],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asheville-living","tag-asheville","tag-bele-chere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}