{"id":307913,"date":"2014-07-19T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=307913"},"modified":"2014-07-21T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T17:09:32","slug":"81st-annual-rose-festival-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=307913","title":{"rendered":"81st Annual Rose Festival Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/roses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/roses-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"roses\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-307949\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The countdown to the 81st annual Texas Rose Festival is officially underway following the festival&#8217;s kickoff over the weekend at Willow Brook Country Club.   Rose Queen Katie Peltier says the festival has always meant a lot to her.  She told KTBB, &#8220;I&#8217;ve watched it growing up here in Tyler all of my life, so it&#8217;s just great to be a part of such a wonderful community experience, and I&#8217;m just honored to represent the city of Tyler and the Tyler roses.&#8221;  Kathleen Bertram is this year&#8217;s Duchess of the Texas Rose Festival.  She chimed in, &#8220;I think this event is very important to Tyler, and I think we all should remember that the true star of the festival is the rose.&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Along with beginning the countdown to the festival, the kickoff served to welcome out-of-town guests who are a part of the festival; to celebrate the end of summer practice for the queen&#8217;s court; to announce general public ticket sales begin Sept. 2; to thank the festival volunteers, along with the kickoff committee and hosts; and to present and sell the 2014 commemorative items.   The festival is October 16-19. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The countdown to the 81st annual Texas Rose Festival is officially underway following the festival&#8217;s kickoff over the weekend at Willow Brook Country Club. Rose Queen Katie Peltier says the festival has always meant a lot to her. She told KTBB, &#8220;I&#8217;ve watched it growing up here in Tyler all of my life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=307913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">81st Annual Rose Festival Kicks Off<\/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-307913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 13:40:47","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\/307913","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=307913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307951,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307913\/revisions\/307951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}