{"id":43819,"date":"2010-10-10T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=43819"},"modified":"2010-10-12T02:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T07:21:16","slug":"little-known-tyler-stories-to-be-told-at-rose-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=43819","title":{"rendered":"Little-Known Tyler Stories to Be Told at Rose Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=43921\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/10\/Texas-Rose-Festival-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Texas Rose Festival\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43921\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; The Texas Rose Festival begins Thursday, and a special touch at Friday&#8217;s coronations will be stories that make Tyler special &#8212; and that you&#8217;ve probably never heard. They range from the city&#8217;s connection with the classic film &#8220;Casablanca&#8221; to how Tyler emerged from a failed peach crop to become a leader in the rose industry. On KTBB &#8220;Staff Meeting,&#8221; Festival Executive Vice President Tom Ramey said the Queen&#8217;s Court will provide the details: &#8220;Each girl will represent a story that sets this city unique &#8212; apart from any other city in America.&#8221; Ramey says one of his favorite stories involves the rose being named the national flower in 1986. According to Ramey, &#8220;It was a man from Tyler, Texas, who said, &#8216;We will do whatever it takes to make the rose the national flower of America.'&#8221; Ramey says details will come at the coronations.<\/p>\n<p>The number to call for coronation tickets is (903) 566-7424.  You can also go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.com<\/a> for more information.  The &#8220;Staff Meeting&#8221; show is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/audio\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/audio<\/a> beginning early Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Texas Rose Festival begins Thursday, and a special touch at Friday&#8217;s coronations will be stories that make Tyler special &#8212; and that you&#8217;ve probably never heard. They range from the city&#8217;s connection with the classic film &#8220;Casablanca&#8221; to how Tyler emerged from a failed peach crop to become a leader in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=43819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little-Known Tyler Stories to Be Told at Rose Festival<\/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-43819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 21:12:08","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\/43819","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=43819"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44136,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819\/revisions\/44136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}