{"id":21209,"date":"2025-10-09T19:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21209"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:37:42","slug":"viking-fest-minnesota-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21209","title":{"rendered":"Viking Fest Minnesota, redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Viking Fest, 2025 - Farmington, MN\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-xdfRACcMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For immediate release:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plan to be at <a href=\"https:\/\/vikingfest.com\/\">Viking Fest Minnesota<\/a> again this weekend, in spite of my tiresome agonizing over car trouble. (The status of my Subaru remains uncertain; I have somebody who thinks they might be able to get her fixed cheap. If not, I\u2019ll be replacing her. But it won\u2019t happen before the weekend.) I\u2019ve reserved a rental car, and have a friend planning to take me to the rental place to pick it up tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My great nightmare is that, since the car will certainly have one of those computer screen control panels, something I\u2019ve never worked with before, I won\u2019t be able to figure it out, and I\u2019ll be left sitting in the rental lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, the video above showed up on YouTube. These people went to the festival on Sunday, the day I wasn\u2019t there. The day it rained. As they\u2019re speaking, my books are getting wet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow they seem to have missed the combat shows, the best part of the event. Or maybe they were aiming for a non-violent presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My personal awning, with its distinctive red cross, can be seen at two points, as I recall around three minutes and five minutes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday should be cool, and there\u2019s a good chance of rain on Sunday. (Sigh.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For immediate release: I plan to be at Viking Fest Minnesota again this weekend, in spite of my tiresome agonizing over car trouble. (The status of my Subaru remains uncertain; I have somebody who thinks they might be able to get her fixed cheap. If not, I\u2019ll be replacing her. But it won\u2019t happen before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Viking Fest Minnesota, redux<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[5725,3272],"class_list":["post-21209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-viking-fest-minnesota","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21211,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209\/revisions\/21211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}