{"id":3001,"date":"2008-08-02T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T18:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2008-08-02T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T18:07:22","slug":"lifting-brushes-on-hydrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"Lifting Brushes On Hydrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong> is &#8220;promoting a sense of community&#8221; and bringing visitors to the area by painting fire hydrants and utility boxes with an &#8220;animal theme&#8221; in a program called <strong>Art in The Heart of the Village<\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080801-9999-1mc1art.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People can \u201cadopt\u201d a hydrant or utility box for $300 to $750 and can paint it personally or commission one of the program&#8217;s volunteer artists. Larger utility boxes and highly visible hydrants on Carlsbad Village Drive and Carlsbad Boulevard are more expensive to adopt, Korogi said. . . . Most of the proceeds from the adoption fee, which includes paint supplies, will be donated to the <strong>Military Outreach Ministry Camp Pendleton<\/strong>, a nonprofit organization that provides food, furniture and household items to military families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The art looks great, but why isn&#8217;t the money staying local? We&#8217;re pretty sure the <strong>Carlsbad Boys and Girls Clubs<\/strong> could use some money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080801-9999-1mc1art.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce is &#8220;promoting a sense of community&#8221; and bringing visitors to the area by painting fire hydrants and utility boxes with an &#8220;animal theme&#8221; in a program called Art in The Heart of the Village, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. People can \u201cadopt\u201d a hydrant or utility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001"}],"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=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}