{"id":2319,"date":"2008-04-10T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T15:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T15:45:48","slug":"family-accidentally-catches-olympic-torch-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2319","title":{"rendered":"Family Accidentally Catches Olympic Torch Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/20080409-041200-4.9.torch10-gallery.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/20080409-041200-4.9.torch10-gallery.jpg','popup','width=400,height=266,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\/04\/20080409-041200-4.9.torch10-gallery-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20080409 041200 4.9.Torch10 Gallery\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, when the Olympic torch made it&#8217;s way through San Francisco a local family got to see it first hand, thanks to SF Mayor <strong>Gavin Newsom&#8217;s<\/strong> last-minute re-routing. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One family of tourists from Southern California was taken by surprise with the torch relay. Chris Girod, who was visiting from Carlsbad, said he and his wife, Diedre, and children <strong>Nelson<\/strong> and <strong>Helen<\/strong> didn&#8217;t know about the torch events until they heard about Monday&#8217;s protest on the Golden Gate Bridge. . . . Still, they were excited to be in San Francisco for the events. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a great educational experience,&#8221; said Chris Girod. &#8220;We just thought it was good for the kids to see there&#8217;s an opportunity to express your views here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes vacations just work out that way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/othersports\/ci_8869703?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, when the Olympic torch made it&#8217;s way through San Francisco a local family got to see it first hand, thanks to SF Mayor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s last-minute re-routing. One family of tourists from Southern California was taken by surprise with the torch relay. Chris Girod, who was visiting from Carlsbad, said he and his wife, [&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\/2319"}],"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=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}