{"id":802527,"date":"2019-07-14T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T13:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=802527"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:48:57","slug":"texas-rose-festival-countdown-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=802527","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rose Festival Countdown Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/texas-rose-festival-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-802530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/texas-rose-festival-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/texas-rose-festival-1-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/texas-rose-festival-1-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/07\/texas-rose-festival-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The countdown to the 86th annual Texas Rose Festival continues following Friday night&#8217;s Kick Off Celebration at Tyler&#8217;s Willow Brook Country Club. Rose Queen Hanna Claire Waits says she&#8217;s been busy in the months since she assumed the title. She tells KTBB &#8220;it&#8217;s been really fun so far&#8221; meeting the kids from out of town who are part of the festival and &#8220;letting them see what the Rose Festival is really about and&#8230;the awesome impact that it has on our community.&#8221;  As Hanna and her court continue rehearsals, she also acknowledged &#8220;the hundreds of volunteers&#8221; who &#8220;are working backstage constantly, making sure we&#8217;re all in the right place, that everybody&#8217;s calm.&#8221; Public ticket sales begin September 1, and the festival is set for October 17th through 20th.  Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.texasrosefestival.com<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The countdown to the 86th annual Texas Rose Festival continues following Friday night&#8217;s Kick Off Celebration at Tyler&#8217;s Willow Brook Country Club. Rose Queen Hanna Claire Waits says she&#8217;s been busy in the months since she assumed the title. She tells KTBB &#8220;it&#8217;s been really fun so far&#8221; meeting the kids from out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=802527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Rose Festival Countdown Begins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":802530,"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-802527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 19:49:58","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\/802527","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=802527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802640,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802527\/revisions\/802640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/802530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}