{"id":870,"date":"2012-05-01T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:53:48","slug":"las-cruces-saturday-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Las Cruces Saturday Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living on the west side of El Paso in the Upper Valley puts you within 30 minutes of Las Cruces. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if its the water, the\u00a0elevation\u00a0or the fact that it&#8217;s in New Mexico but there&#8217;s\u00a0a different vibe from El Paso there. \u00a0Every\u00a0Saturday\u00a0they have a <a href=\"http:\/\/lascrucesfarmersmarket.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">market downtown<\/a> where they show case local artists, farmers and crafts that stretches for about 4 blocks. \u00a0Its quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=204600700021198483142.0004bef99da00b7c191b4&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=32.310668,-106.778834&amp;spn=0.001689,0.000553&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=204600700021198483142.0004bef99da00b7c191b4&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=32.310668,-106.778834&amp;spn=0.001689,0.000553&amp;source=embed\">Las Cruces Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend they added chalk artists to the mix giving the boys something to look at other than boring plants, they were especially interested in this one:<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<dl id=\"\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juanoxido\/6976251462\/in\/set-72157628986075327\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Adventure Time!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8002\/6976251462_397a6323fd.jpg\" alt=\"Adventure Time!\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Adventure Time!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>the chalk artists occupied about half a block and they even had a section of a parking lot taped off so the kids could go and create their own drawings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<dl id=\"\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chalk it up\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7093\/6976279178_894800f15f.jpg\" alt=\"Chalk it up\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Chalk it up<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course our boys paid no\u00a0attention\u00a0to the taped area and drew on the side walk but in their\u00a0defense there wasn&#8217;t much room left. \u00a0Since the street is blocked off it gives the vendors lots of room to set up on both sides of the street utilizing the center for walking and additional space if necessary.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"walking\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"walking\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7223\/7122339009_e29cd31190.jpg\" alt=\"walking\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>They have such wide\u00a0variety of vendors and artists\u00a0you never know what you&#8217;ll\u00a0stumble\u00a0across. \u00a0The local Humane\u00a0Society even had a selection of dogs available for\u00a0adoption.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<dl id=\"\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Adopt me!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8150\/6976256902_2b97c287fa.jpg\" alt=\"Adopt me!\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adopt me!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had originally went to look at the chalk artists but by noon many were still working on their pieces and we were ready for lunch. \u00a0We headed out for a quick bite and then off to \u00a0check out a British car show in old Mesilla.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juanoxido\/sets\/72157629568714232\/with\/6976256902\/\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Market on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living on the west side of El Paso in the Upper Valley puts you within 30 minutes of Las Cruces. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if its the water, the\u00a0elevation\u00a0or the fact that it&#8217;s in New Mexico but there&#8217;s\u00a0a different vibe from El Paso there. \u00a0Every\u00a0Saturday\u00a0they have a market downtown where they show case local artists, farmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[100,140,33],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-photography","tag-las-cruces","tag-market","tag-new-mexico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MdZY-e2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}