{"id":1884,"date":"2008-01-20T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T04:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2008-01-20T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T04:07:25","slug":"carlsbad-the-tourist-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad: The Tourist Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/nor-sheraton.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/nor-sheraton.jpg','popup','width=280,height=181,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\/2008\/01\/nor-sheraton-tm.jpg\" height=\"129\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Nor-Sheraton\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080120-9999-1mc20tour.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong> explains exactly why our hometown is such a great place to visit and live, but they&#8217;re not talking about downtown <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>, no they&#8217;re talking about everything east of I-5 (is that possible?).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s 66 degrees on a shimmering day in the middle of January. . . This could be any coastal city in San Diego County, which is what makes the region fertile ground for tourism. . . But this is Carlsbad, and what has made Carlsbad an exceptional tourist draw among its peers is not what&#8217;s going on west of the sandy beach, but east of it. . . Being in North County is a plus, too, said David Brundley, an international hospitality and marketing consultant based in Carlsbad. &#8220;Carlsbad has got a great location, and it benefits that it&#8217;s not downtown San Diego, but it&#8217;s not that far away,&#8221; Brundley said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we all know this, but if you want to freshen up on how great Carlsbad is, read the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080120-9999-1mc20tour.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune]<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union-Tribune explains exactly why our hometown is such a great place to visit and live, but they&#8217;re not talking about downtown Carlsbadistan, no they&#8217;re talking about everything east of I-5 (is that possible?). It&#8217;s 66 degrees on a shimmering day in the middle of January. . . This could be any coastal city in [&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":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}