{"id":1155,"date":"2014-02-22T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2014-02-22T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:18:48","slug":"hot-air-balloon-festival-seeks-local-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/hot-air-balloon-festival-seeks-local-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot air balloon festival seeks local funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commission of the\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Advertising and Promotion (A&amp;P) in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Russellville, Arkansas, USA \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">will vote next month on a request for funds for a hot air balloon festival coming to the city of Russellville in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Commissioners were presented during their meeting Thursday with a mini-grant request for <a title=\"Balloons over Russvegas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.balloonsoverrussvegas.com\" target=\"_blank\">Balloons Over Russvegas<\/a> in the amount of $1,000. The funds, if approved, would be used to purchase advertising materials.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled for May 1-3, Balloons Over Russvegas is a hot air balloon festival that will include a concert by Georgette Jones, the daughter of George Jones and Tammy Wynette; balloon rides; balloon competitions featuring 20 balloons from six states; a dog walk; skydiving; a hot wing contest; and other activities and events.<\/p>\n<p>There is a 30-day waiting period before mini-grant proposals can be voted on, so commissioners will not vote on the request until their March meeting.<\/p>\n<p>via &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriernews.com\/view\/full_story\/24619107\/article-Hot-air-balloon-festival-seeks-A-P-funds\">The Courier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission of the\u00a0Advertising and Promotion (A&amp;P) in\u00a0Russellville, Arkansas, USA \u00a0will vote next month on a request for funds for a hot air balloon festival coming to the city of Russellville in May. Commissioners were presented during their meeting Thursday with a mini-grant request for Balloons Over Russvegas in the amount of $1,000. The funds, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[621,617,619,618,620,36],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiesta","tag-arkansas","tag-balloons-over-russvegas","tag-georgette-jones","tag-russellville","tag-tammy-wynette","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-07-at-18.46.51.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RIC2-iD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}