{"id":7739,"date":"2010-04-04T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2010-04-04T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:21:50","slug":"happy-easter-carlsbadistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7739","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter, Carlsbadistan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Cupcake-Decorating.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Cupcake-Decorating.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\/2010\/04\/Cupcake-Decorating-tm.jpg\" height=\"573\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cupcake Decorating\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?page_id=7736\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the entire EGGStravaganza photo gallery<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The City of <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> Parks &#38; Recreation Department&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7715\" target=\"_blank\">2010 EGGStravaganza Spring Festival<\/a><\/strong> was exactly that yesterday as more than 1,000 egg-hunting Easter Bunny fans converged on Poinsettia Park.<\/p>\n<p>Kids were treated to easter egg hunts (for all ages), face painting, cup-cake decorating, gymnastic tumbling, and a seemingly limitless supply of bouncy bounce options. The lines on some of the bouncers were up to 20 minutes long. The longest wait, however, is for getting a photo taken with the Easter Bunny. That line was nearly an hour long at one point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve waited in the line so long that we have to get our photo now,&#8221; said one mom while waiting for her photo to print. &#8220;We have too much time invested to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One father said he couldn&#8217;t believe the crowds. &#8220;Last year there was about a quarter of the number of people that are here today,&#8221; he said while looking out over the mob of kids. &#8220;It must be the weather. Last year it was pretty overcast and today it&#8217;s perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank the Carlsbad Parks &#38; Recreation Department and all the volunteers for making the EGGStravaganza an amazingly fun day for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?page_id=7736\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a photo gallery from the event<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for the entire EGGStravaganza photo gallery. The City of Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Parks &#38; Recreation Department&#8217;s 2010 EGGStravaganza Spring Festival was exactly that yesterday as more than 1,000 egg-hunting Easter Bunny fans converged on Poinsettia Park. Kids were treated to easter egg hunts (for all ages), face painting, cup-cake decorating, gymnastic tumbling, and a seemingly [&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":[37,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739"}],"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=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}