{"id":878,"date":"2007-08-19T07:08:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T14:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2007-08-19T07:09:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T14:09:03","slug":"the-crossings-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"The Crossings Face Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/thecrossings1.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/thecrossings1.png','popup','width=781,height=125,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\/08\/thecrossings-tm1.jpg\" height=\"68\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Thecrossings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In classic old-school point-counter-point fashion the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/19\/blog\/sports\/20_06_705_15_07.txt\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has paired two people up to answer the burning question: Is Carlsbad&#8217;s $68 million golf course a good investment? The pair is made up of sports editor <strong>Loren Nelson<\/strong> and staff writer <strong>Marc Figueroa<\/strong>. Would you believe the sports editor is in favor of the course? It is Figueroa, however,  who makes the best point in the entire debate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So when the city of Carlsbad trotted out its shiny, new $68 million track earlier this month, I couldn&#8217;t help but scratch my head. Why invest that much money in something that only a small percentage of people are going to use?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We agree. Let us know what you think: click the link below to post a comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/19\/blog\/sports\/20_06_705_15_07.txt\">North County TImes<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In classic old-school point-counter-point fashion the North County Times has paired two people up to answer the burning question: Is Carlsbad&#8217;s $68 million golf course a good investment? The pair is made up of sports editor Loren Nelson and staff writer Marc Figueroa. Would you believe the sports editor is in favor of the course? [&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":[15,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}