{"id":498,"date":"2011-06-01T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/06\/01\/baltimore-summer-events\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:47","slug":"baltimore-summer-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/06\/01\/baltimore-summer-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Summer Events!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your own skin didn&#8217;t already inform you that it&#8217;s warm outside, there&#8217;s that overhead hum-drip of window-mounted air conditioners, the shimmering of heatwaves on every concrete surface, and the street vendors hollering about ice-cold snowballs and $1 bottles of water.  In short, this week has brought summer on with an absolute furnace of tropical heat.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Baltimore offers a simmering sample of distractions on these roasting hot, clingingly humid days of summer.  Here are a few festivals and events happening in the near future that are definitely worth checking out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Strand Theater&#8217;s 2011 Friends &amp; Neighbors Festival from June 1-19<\/li>\n<li>Federal Hill&#8217;s Jazz&amp;Blues Wine&amp;Art Festival on June 5<\/li>\n<li>The Greek Folk Festival from June 9-12<\/li>\n<li>HonFest from June 11-12<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore Pride 2011 from June 17-19<\/li>\n<li>The Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival on June 18<\/li>\n<li>ROOTS Fest 2011: Many Communities, One Voice from June 22-26<\/li>\n<li>LatinoFest 2011 from June 25-26<\/li>\n<li>The African American Festival from July 2-3<\/li>\n<li>Artscape from July 15-17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see the MANY, MANY more events happening in and around Baltimore, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.org\/events\/\">http:\/\/baltimore.org\/events\/<\/a>  OR  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/events\/\">http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/events\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your own skin didn&#8217;t already inform you that it&#8217;s warm outside, there&#8217;s that overhead hum-drip of window-mounted air conditioners, the shimmering of heatwaves on every concrete surface, and the street vendors hollering about ice-cold snowballs and $1 bottles of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/06\/01\/baltimore-summer-events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Baltimore Summer Events!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,372,16,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}