{"id":54,"date":"2010-07-07T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-07-07T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:45:00","slug":"astral-harvest-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/astral-harvest-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Astral Harvest 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4762351533\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" title=\"Astral Harvest by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Astral Harvest\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4135\/4762351533_722f86af43.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>I spent this past weekend at the Astral Harvest Electronic Music Festival in Driftpile, Alberta. It was a cloudy windy rainy weekend, but good music and good company made the weather easy to forget and ignore. We hadn&#8217;t planned on going to this event until the night before we left, but the last minute trips tend to be some of the best. It was going to be a simple camping-at-the-lake long weekend, and I had prepared a few &#8220;camping appropriate recipes,&#8221; but those got put on the back burner (maybe some other weekend!)<\/p>\n<p>There was another vendor selling blended juices called the Kiki Bean, and I had this blend of black berries, acai juice and concentrated Saskatoon berries. It was delicious.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4770919886\/\" title=\"P1090451 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1090451\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4076\/4770919886_d59f11e16b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4770280373\/\" title=\"P1090449 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1090449\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4140\/4770280373_96e069a50d_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>I was never a big camper beyond sleeping in a tent in the yard as a child, but the last few years have been filled with various outdoor adventures (My favourite was on Galliano Island). I brought my little blue 2-3 person tent, and J&amp;M brought their giant tent palace, but we all ended up sitting in the palace and relaxing after dancing for hours and hours.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4762987330\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" title=\"Home Sweet Home by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Home Sweet Home\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4101\/4762987330_42dfb564bf.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>I was blown away by the acoustic beat boxing from <a href=\"http:\/\/shamikmusic.com\/shamik.html\">Shamik Dynamik<\/a> and the diversity of Neighbour. Both of them just made my night. We caught some of a fire dancing troupe while they performed to the dubstep music of Andrei Heyoka, it was very beautiful. I&#8217;m always so impressed with the choreography and physical awareness that has to &nbsp;take place in these performances. They make it look so easy, but it&#8217;s not.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4762351651\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" title=\"Firedancers at Astral Harvest 2010 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firedancers at Astral Harvest 2010\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4078\/4762351651_a347c7844e.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>When we finally got back into the city our first stop was Remedy for some fresh and delicious cheesecake. He brought in two of my favourite flavours on Sunday: Chocolate Coconut and Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana, yummy as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent this past weekend at the Astral Harvest Electronic Music Festival in Driftpile, Alberta. It was a cloudy windy rainy weekend, but good music and good company made the weather easy to forget and ignore. We hadn&#8217;t planned on going to this event until the night before we left,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,56,4],"tags":[1376],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-festival","category-vegan-food","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}