{"id":1008,"date":"2017-07-03T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2017-07-03T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:32:29","slug":"permanent-change-summer-festivals-and-road-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Change: Summer Festivals and Road Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Bill Gobie<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year two summer festivals close roads or trails in Seattle. Please keep these in mind when planning rides.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>Seafair<\/strong> hydroplane races close a section of Lake Washington Blvd at Genesee Park in late July or early August, typically Friday through Sunday. This year the dates are<strong> August 4-6<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The I-90 floating bridge closes during the Seafair air shows.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hempfest<\/strong> closes the bike trail in Myrtle Edwards park for several days in August. This year the dates are <strong>August 18-20<\/strong>. Setup and teardown may obstruct the trail for several days on either side of the event.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other towns have summer festivals which include street closures or parades. For example, Covington Days July 15 &amp; 16 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bill Gobie Every year two summer festivals close roads or trails in Seattle. Please keep these in mind when planning rides. The Seafair hydroplane races close a section of Lake Washington Blvd at Genesee Park in late July or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/?p=1008\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-permanent-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seattlerando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}