{"id":10227,"date":"2014-10-20T00:25:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2014-10-20T00:25:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T04:25:02","slug":"south-carolina-state-fair-2014-fairgrounds-19-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10227","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina State Fair 2014, Fairgrounds: 19 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, what do you want me to say? It was the State Fair<\/a>, and if you've followed these posts for a while, you know the kind of thing I like to take pictures of at the fair, so there won't be any surprises here.<\/p>\n

Some changes that started last year seem to have stuck. In particular, the sand sculpture is still in the Ruff Building rather than the Ellison Building and the gray market videos and TELEVAC 8600<\/a> are still gone:<\/p>\n

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The pictures are from 12 October, which was an overcast day, though the temperature was nice. As the evening wore on, it started to spit rain a bit, and in fact more than a bit at times. That affected the skyride video this year. I was afraid it would really start coming down, so I took the video going west to east, rather than hoofing it back to the east and going the other way. That means that we're travelling away from the most visually interesting parts. I think the rain was also futzing with the autofocus of the camera a bit from time to time.<\/p>\n