{"id":44929,"date":"2021-08-31T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-highland-games-and-celtic-festival-brings-a-taste-of-the-scottish-highlands-to-the-southwest\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:13:00","slug":"aztec-highland-games-and-celtic-festival-brings-a-taste-of-the-scottish-highlands-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-highland-games-and-celtic-festival-brings-a-taste-of-the-scottish-highlands-to-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztec Highland Games and Celtic Festival brings a taste of the Scottish Highlands to the Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 11th annual Aztec Highland Games and Celtic Festival will take place Oct. 2 and 3 at Riverside Park, 500 S. Lightplant Road, Aztec.<\/p>\n<p>The family-friendly cultural event brings a taste of the Scottish Highlands to the Southwest, featuring the heavy Celtic athletic competitions, Highland dance competitions, bag pipe band exhibitions, live Celtic music, vendors and Clan tents.<\/p>\n<p>Big Paddy will headline the music festival portion. Watch the heavy Celtic athletic competitions featuring the caber toss, the Braemar Stone throw and other feats of strength and agility.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $15 for the day, $20 for the weekend or $17 for the day at the gate and $22 for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Children 12 and younger are free, student\/military\/senior discounts are available and leashed dogs are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aztechighlandgames.com\/\" id=\"link-1b84c7ab04646ec3120639e23298fbc3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www. AztecHighlandGames.com<\/a> or at the gate.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Christa at (505) 716-3003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>feature dance, athletic events, music and vendors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1240,202,902,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aztec","tag-briefs","tag-entertainment-general","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44929"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}