{"id":12539,"date":"2021-10-04T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=12539"},"modified":"2021-10-04T19:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:34:05","slug":"overall-look-at-the-36th-annual-walnut-festival-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/overall-look-at-the-36th-annual-walnut-festival-weekend-20211004","title":{"rendered":"Overall Look At The 36th Annual Walnut Festival Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>The 36th Annual Walnut Festival took place on Saturday, October 2, 2021. It started out on Friday night with the Run the Town for Gold 5K and one mile run\/walk.<\/p>\n<h3>Run The Town For Gold<\/h3>\n<p>The race took place at the Alton High School. About twenty kids ran the one mile race. For the 5K, two teenagers and a pair of parents with their kids ran\/walked it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12494\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12494 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Run4-640x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Run4-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Run4-230x120.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Run4-710x368.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Run4-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The one mile participants are together for a group picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>The Walnut Festival<\/h3>\n<p>While the forecast was predicting a rainy day, the rain held off until the end of the festival. The Walnut Festival began bright and early at 9:00 am. The National Anthem was sung and the school choirs sang. Kids could carve pumpkins until 11:30 am.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12512\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12512 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Fest2-640x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Fest2-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Fest2-230x120.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Fest2-710x368.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-Fest2-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids carving pumpkins at the Walnut Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vendors were selling shirts, candles, food, and all sorts of things. Their was also a baking and woodworking contest. Youth games were held from 12:30 until 3:00 pm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12530\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12530 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-FestPt2.1-640x333.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkins lined up to be judged for the Pumpkin carving contest on October 2, 2021 at Alton, Mo.\" width=\"625\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-FestPt2.1-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-FestPt2.1-230x120.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-FestPt2.1-710x368.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Walnut-FestPt2.1-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumpkins lined up to be judged for the Pumpkin carving contest on October 2, 2021 at Alton, Mo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36th Annual Walnut Festival took place on October 2, 2021. It started out on Friday night with the Run the Town for Gold 5K and one mile run\/walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[243,225,229,201,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12542,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions\/12542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}