{"id":260789,"date":"2022-05-17T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=260789"},"modified":"2024-02-29T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:00:12","slug":"metrofest-thank-you-for-a-great-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/metrofest-thank-you-for-a-great-event\/","title":{"rendered":"MetroFest &#8211; Thank You for a Great Event!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MetroFest-May13-2022-Shrewsbury-43-1024x645.jpg\" alt=\"Child at MetroFest, participating in the dance class portion of the event\" class=\"wp-image-260823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MetroFest-May13-2022-Shrewsbury-43-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MetroFest-May13-2022-Shrewsbury-43-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MetroFest-May13-2022-Shrewsbury-43-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MetroFest-May13-2022-Shrewsbury-43.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>On May 13, 2022, Metro Transit hosted MetroFest at the Shrewsbury MetroLink Station.<\/p>\n<p>The event was filled with all things Metro, music, food, face-painting, jugglers, crafts, dancing, prize giveaways, a chance to check out our new electric buses, and career opportunities onsite.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone that joined us for all the excitement. And a special thank you to our partners for helping us put on this event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/hot1041\">HOT 104.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouribotanicalgarden.org\/\">Missouri Botanical Garden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/explorestlouis.com\/\">Explore St. Louis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/greatriversgreenway.org\/\">Great Rivers Greenway<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/safety-and-security\/\">Metro Transit Public Safety<\/a>\u00a0&amp; Bureau of Transit Police<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cmt-stl.org\/\">Citizens for Modern Transit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatewayarch.com\/\">Gateway Arch<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatewayarch.com\/experience\/riverboat-cruises\/\">Riverboats at the Gateway Arch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/circuskaput.com\/\">Circus Kaput<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayergardenshops.com\/\">Bayer\u2019s Garden Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madcodance.com\/\">Modern American Dance Company (MADCO)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guspretzels.com\/\">Gus&#8217; Pretzel Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iceshackstl.com\/\">Ice Shack STL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out our photos and videos from the event below, and stay tuned for upcoming community events with Metro!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stlmetro\/albums\/72177720299033500' title='MetroFest | May 2022 by Bi-State Development, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52081161535_4ae53f92fd.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='MetroFest | May 2022'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 13, 2022, Metro Transit hosted MetroFest at the Shrewsbury MetroLink Station. The event was filled with all things Metro, music, food, face-painting, jugglers, crafts, dancing, prize giveaways, a chance to check out our new electric buses, and career opportunities onsite. Thank you to everyone that joined us for all the excitement. And a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metro-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}