	{"id":20352,"date":"2019-03-27T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=20352"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T22:07:39","slug":"medieval-faire-far-from-dark-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/news\/medieval-faire-far-from-dark-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Faire far from dark ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Victorian Goldfields Medieval Faire went over last weekend with people flocking to the Ballarat Polocrosse Grounds for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Revived pastimes and artforms were on slow including jousting and other forms of medieval combat along with everything from coopering, pipe crafting, weaving and weapons makers.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said the Faire was a great success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it was fantastic and so did everybody else. 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