{"id":7119,"date":"2020-05-27T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:19:42","slug":"walnut-festival-2020-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/community\/walnut-festival-2020-cancelled-20200527","title":{"rendered":"Walnut Festival 2020 Cancelled- Chamber Cites &#8220;Many Factors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>The Alton Area Chamber of Commerce announced that the 2020 Ozark Black Gold Walnut Festival is canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what they say:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It is with great sorrow that the Alton Area Chamber of Commerce confirms that the annual Ozark Black Gold Walnut Festival set for October 3, 2020 has been canceled. This has been a difficult decision to make but we feel that this is the best choice for our members and our community. There are many factors that went into this decision and we are greatly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We will list more specific details on our Facebook page and welcome any questions you may have.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We checked their Facebook page. As of the time of this post, there is no further information regarding the cancellation of the Ozark Walnut Festival.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is The Walnut Festival?<\/h2>\n<p>Alton, Missouri hosts the annual Walnut Festival in October. It is a much-anticipated family-friendly event. With food vendors, handmade items, contests, and music, those in charge were worried about health concerns. Therefore, with the current situation, a vote passed at the last meeting to cancel this event. As of today, no one is thinking about canceling 2021. However, this does give vendors and participants an additional year to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alton Area Chamber of Commerce announced that the 2020 Ozark Black Gold Walnut Festival is canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[243,225,229,250,220,201,264,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}