{"id":1845,"date":"2023-05-06T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2023-05-06T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:56:19","slug":"flight-of-the-fairies-returning-to-decatur-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/06\/flight-of-the-fairies-returning-to-decatur-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight of the Fairies returning to Decatur in June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A popular children&#8217;s event will be returning to Decatur this year, with the third annual Flight of the Fairies scheduled for Saturday, June 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Colson (see photo), who heads up the event, came before city council at its latest meeting to request permission to post promotional materials in various places throughout the city a few weeks before June 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Permission was readily given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Proceeds will go to the Decatur Arts Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate you doing things like this for our community,\u201d Councilman Matt Dyer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;ve continued to grow\u201d the event, Councilman Wylie Sirk noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets will be $8, with children under 2 admitted free, and will be available at the event. There also will be a pre-sale at Riverside Center, date to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fairies will be located in the \u201cenchanted woods\u201d west of the REV Sports Complex and off Washington St. Extended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSearch for fairies and their houses, create magical crafts\u201d a Facebook post says. \u201cAdd to the magic, come dressed as a magical creature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3C3DA75F92B84AF48C528D2970199C9B.jpg?resize=572%2C480\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3C3DA75F92B84AF48C528D2970199C9B.jpg?w=572&amp;ssl=1 572w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3C3DA75F92B84AF48C528D2970199C9B.jpg?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A fairy house decorating workshop will be held from 2-5 p.m. May 7 at the Bridge Community Church; houses will be $5 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A popular children&#8217;s event will be returning to Decatur this year, with the third<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3C3DA75F92B84AF48C528D2970199C9B.jpg?fit=572%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}