{"id":8090,"date":"2025-08-29T02:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:53:51","slug":"hot-air-balloons-to-return-oct-12-for-monster-mash-balloon-bash-in-princeton-shawlocal-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8090","title":{"rendered":"Hot air balloons to return Oct. 12 for Monster Mash Balloon Bash in Princeton &#8211; shawlocal.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"robot-feature-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shawlocal.com\/resizer\/IpJFpVQFJS7gosBGUXLosaMxb-Q%3D\/1200x630\/filters%3Aformat%28jpg%29%3Aquality%2870%29\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/shawmedia\/HECFL6BGQ5BFTNXOWWP4TQE2SA.jpg?w=860&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><span>Hot air balloon glow and tethered rides are expected to make their return Saturday, Oct. 12, for Princeton&#8217;s first Monster Mash Balloon Bash. <\/span>(Scott Anderson)<br \/>Hot air balloons will be making a return Saturday, Oct. 12, to be a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/princeton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton<\/a>\u2019s first Monster Mash Balloon Bash, Princeton Tourism announced.<br \/>The city, Princeton Tourism, the Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/bureau-county\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau County<\/a> Fair reimagined the Scarecrow Festival.<br \/>There will be tricks, treats and the haunted house at the Bureau County Fairgrounds. Events for the day include trick-or-treating on Main Street, a kids costume contest, the Bureau County Fair\u2019s annual Halloween Parade followed by a performance of the Hocus Pocus Hags, the Nightmare Haunted Attraction celebrating 21 years, a petting zoo, food vendors, activities for children, and a hot air balloon glow and tethered rides, among other activities.<br \/>Shaw Local News Network provides local news throughout northern Illinois<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxNQjBoX3NQMzNYdEdTTkthUU5LZUdtZWtZWkRDTG9mUks1Y1RyTXdsZGlPV1BDS1dmMmJQdTY3Zk1UQ19UTk5YSnhhd0lkMUJLUDVIZTcyN1l0M3VlQUhEbnBBQjVBNVZuVklsMW8xRzdGemhxMUJ3ZjFCRmw1Y2U1RUlKMldMRG5DUGJ2SmEwRVVCazFRSVF1aVZVQ1FOaENCQXpVWHBFaG9nT1V0Q1FldlpmSWM4WmhOcTFfd3hSRUs?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot air balloon glow and tethered rides are expected to make their return Saturday, Oct. 12, for Princeton&#8217;s first Monster Mash Balloon Bash. (Scott Anderson)Hot air balloons will be making a return Saturday, Oct. 12, to be a part of Princeton\u2019s first Monster Mash Balloon Bash, Princeton Tourism announced.The city, Princeton Tourism, the Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}