{"id":1605,"date":"2007-12-02T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2007-12-13T22:49:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T05:49:45","slug":"santa-kicks-off-christmas-in-carlsbadistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"Santa Kicks Off Christmas In Carlsbadistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1375.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1375.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1375-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Img 1375\" border=\"1\" height=\"322\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Carlsbad Fire Department&#8217;s<\/strong> classic fire truck had a special passenger this afternoon as hundreds of kids and their parents gathered for the annual Carlsbad Rotary Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopvillagefaire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Village Faire<\/a><\/strong> in the heart of <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>. And who was this special rider? It was <strong>Santa Claus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1366.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1366.jpg','popup','width=750,height=1000,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1366-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Img 1366\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" height=\"133\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>Tree-lighting guests were treated to free hot apple cider, coffee and cookies, as well as a Christmas card making station for the kids. Santa actually allowed strangers to sit on his lap while elves snapped Polaroid pictures for the kids.<\/p>\n<p>Before <strong>Mayor Bud Lewis<\/strong> officially lit the tree, the crowd enjoyed a girls choir from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaddys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patricks<\/a><\/strong> as well as several large groups of dancers including <strong>Jazzersize<\/strong>, Irish traditional dancing, and the ubiquitous <strong>Carlsbad High School Lancer Dancers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We got cold and left before hearing the Mayor&#8217;s words to kick off the season, but we&#8217;re going to guess that they were wonderfully appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1384.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1384.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1384-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Img 1384\" border=\"1\" height=\"322\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJazzercisers jingle bell rocking out.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below for more photos and video of some Irish Traditional Dancers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1379.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1379.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1379-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Img 1379\" border=\"1\" height=\"322\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Choir from St. Patrick&#8217;s School.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1381-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1381-1.jpg','popup','width=729,height=1000,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1381-1-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Img 1381-1\" border=\"1\" height=\"589\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGetting off Santa&#8217;s lap will probably be the best present they get all year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1376.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1376.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img-1376-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Img 1376\" border=\"1\" height=\"322\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSanta is on fire for Christmas.<br \/>\n<object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Fz1-a9L9EEc&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Fz1-a9L9EEc&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbad Fire Department&#8217;s classic fire truck had a special passenger this afternoon as hundreds of kids and their parents gathered for the annual Carlsbad Rotary Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony at the Village Faire in the heart of Carlsbadistan. And who was this special rider? It was Santa Claus. Tree-lighting guests were treated to free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}