{"id":30590,"date":"2022-07-08T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=30590"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:24:27","slug":"big-butler-fair-july-1-9-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2022\/07\/08\/big-butler-fair-july-1-9-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Butler Fair: July 1-9, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Big Butler Fair is the largest fair in Western Pennsylvania and is considered by many to be the best fair in the country.<\/p>\n

Families from all over Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and West Virginia come to The Big Butler Fair to enjoy fireworks, the midway, games, demolition derbies, concerts and truck pulls.<\/p>\n

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Briar Kennedy, 6, of Valencia, brushes Daisy, the two-year-old calf, as it feeds from its mother Lilac on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. The cows are part of the Harold F. Family Farm in Valencia. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Emma Mershimer, 14, who is part of the Butler County 4-H mounted drill team, cleans her 23-year-old horse Jazz on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jayden Matuke, 15, left, and Noah Kuhta, 15, both of Butler, ride the Sky Hawk on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kinley Rome, 8, of Jefferson Township, rides her pony Posey in the English walk trot pleasure beginners competition on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. Rome was the only participant in her age division. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jayden Matuke, 15, left, and Noah Kuhta, 15, both of Butler, ride the Sky Hawk on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Briar Kennedy, 6, of Valencia, brushes Daisy, the two-year-old calf, as it feeds from its mother Lilac while Briar\u2019s sister Norah Kennedy, 4, watches on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. The cows are part of the Harold F. Family Farm in Valencia. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People ride the F5 ride on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brothers Justin Bruckner, 4, left, and Matthew Bruckner, 7, both of O\u2019Hara, play a ring toss game on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People react as they go upside down on the Fireball ride on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Siblings Norah Kennedy, 4, left, and Briar Kennedy, 6, both of Valencia, watch as Daisy, the two-year-old calf, feeds from its mother Lilac on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. The cows are part of the Harold F. Family Farm in Valencia. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People react as they go upside down on the Fireball ride on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the 166th annual Big Butler Fair. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Big Butler Fair is the largest fair in Western Pennsylvania and is considered by many to be the best fair in the country. Families from all over Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and West Virginia come to The Big Butler Fair to enjoy fireworks, the midway, games, demolition derbies, concerts and truck pulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":30597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/20220705emButlerFair07-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1616&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30602,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions\/30602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30590"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}