{"id":219064,"date":"2012-10-18T11:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=219064"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:18:06","slug":"rose-festival-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=219064","title":{"rendered":"Rose Festival Continues Through Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=219065\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-219065\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/10\/thumb_roses-2-150x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_roses-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-219065\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 The 79th Texas Rose Festival is underway in Tyler, running through October 21st. Rose Queen Haley Anderson cut the ribbon Thursday morning and welcomed attendees. Haley says she\u2019s excited and terms her role an honor and privilege. She says she especially likes the big Saturday morning Rose Festival Parade and Saturday afternoon\u2019s Queen\u2019s Tea, because it gives her a chance to meet the public. Haley points out that along with the color and pageantry, the festival offers a big economic boost, pumping lots of money into Tyler\u2019s hotels and restaurants. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Festival theme is \u201cIndochine: The Year of the Dragon.\u201d Besides the parade and tea, activities include a Rose Show at the Rose Garden Center, the Queen\u2019s Coronation, the Ladies Luncheon with guest speaker Laura Bush, and a Men\u2019s Luncheon with guest speaker Ray L. Hunt. Add to all of this an Arts and Crafts Fair and a Saturday evening concert, and there\u2019s something for every member of the family. You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.net<\/a> to get more information about the activities as well as a calendar of the various events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 The 79th Texas Rose Festival is underway in Tyler, running through October 21st. Rose Queen Haley Anderson cut the ribbon Thursday morning and welcomed attendees. Haley says she\u2019s excited and terms her role an honor and privilege. She says she especially likes the big Saturday morning Rose Festival Parade and Saturday afternoon\u2019s Queen\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=219064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rose Festival Continues Through Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 02:51:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219064","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219064"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219507,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219064\/revisions\/219507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}