{"id":183569,"date":"2025-10-17T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=183569"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:39:29","slug":"how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=183569","title":{"rendered":"How the Renaissance Fair became America\u2019s favorite fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a 1960s school fundraiser in California became a nationwide escape into the past. Here\u2019s the history behind the Renaissance fairs and how they blend fantasy, theater, and community in ways their founders never imagined.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/article\/renaissance-fair-origins-elizabethan-theater\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a 1960s school fundraiser in California became a nationwide escape into the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy.jpeg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy-300x169.jpeg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy-768x432.jpeg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy-1024x576.jpeg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy.jpeg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy.jpeg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy-1024x576.jpeg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/183569-how-the-renaissance-fair-became-americas-favorite-fantasy-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}