{"id":1169058,"date":"2022-10-05T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169058"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:28:02","slug":"east-texas-state-fair-celebrates-another-big-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169058","title":{"rendered":"East Texas State Fair celebrates another big year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/sykes-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1169059\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The East Texas State Fair is celebrating another successful year, including some record-breaking activity, after wrapping up Sunday.  According to our news partner KETK, fair President John Sykes said despite families being impacted by inflation, the attractions still saw a bigger turnout than ever. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our entries this year in all of our contests\u00e2\u20ac\u201c in some areas, they even quadrupled the number of people participating in our Floral Cup, our horticulture, arts and crafts and even our livestock show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explained Sykes. The Fair saw more than 250,000 visitors this year, which was about the same as last year. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Sykes said it was an amazing surprise to see after concerns of less space on the fair grounds due to construction of the new W.T. Brokshire Center. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With the construction going on out here, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve lost our footprint substantially and to turn it around and have the carnival set an all-time record on attendance and participation is truly phenomenal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Sykes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The East Texas State Fair is celebrating another successful year, including some record-breaking activity, after wrapping up Sunday. According to our news partner KETK, fair President John Sykes said despite families being impacted by inflation, the attractions still saw a bigger turnout than ever. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our entries this year in all of our contests\u00e2\u20ac\u201c &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas State Fair celebrates another big year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1169067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/sykes-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas State Fair celebrates another big year","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 10:49:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/sykes-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas State Fair celebrates another big year","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169069,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169058\/revisions\/1169069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}