{"id":1688,"date":"2006-10-16T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/allllll-aboard\/"},"modified":"2006-10-16T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T16:29:00","slug":"allllll-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/allllll-aboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Allllll aboard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasta.org\/\">Louisiana Steam Train Association<\/a> held &#8220;SteamFest&#8221; to honor the 50th anniversary of the donation of steam locomotive number 745 by the Southern Pacific Railroad      to Audubon Park.  For years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neoshodailynews.com\/articles\/2006\/08\/29\/news\/07train.prt\">this train<\/a> was held in the park.  Many of our neighbors remember playing in and around it as kids.   The weekend event was held on The Fly (the section of Riverside Park that is behind Audubon Zoo) and included tours of the train and boxcars, music, food, and train rides.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1625-1.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1625-1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1608-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1608-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A bunch of the kids from Abeona came, too.  We camped out on a blanket and watched the kids run around.  Aya and Will were, as always, the day&#8217;s hot item.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1710-1.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1710-1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1589-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1589-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1687-1.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1687-1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Will loved riding in the little Thomas Train.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1597-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1597-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the Louisiana Steam Train Association held &#8220;SteamFest&#8221; to honor the 50th anniversary of the donation of steam locomotive number 745 by the Southern Pacific Railroad to Audubon Park. For years, this train was held in the park. Many of our neighbors remember playing in and around it as kids. The weekend event was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}