{"id":1530,"date":"2007-11-21T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T03:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2007-11-21T20:33:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T03:33:46","slug":"the-forum-christmas-tree-lights-up-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"The Forum Christmas Tree Lights Up Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/026.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/026.jpg','popup','width=576,height=384,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\/11\/026-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a mall. And the reason they&#8217;re having a Christmas Tree Lighting at all is to get you into the parking lot because once you&#8217;re there chances are you&#8217;ll buy something. But in the spirit of the season let&#8217;s just ignore that for a moment and think about how nice it will be to bundle up the kids, hop in the sleigh and slide on over to <strong>The Forum Shopping Center<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=1923+Calle+Barcelona,+Carlsbad,+CA&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\">1923 Calle Barcelona<\/a><\/strong> in Carlsbad where, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/21\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/18_38_4811_20_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, you can enjoy &#8220;children&#8217;s crafts, complimentary horse-drawn carriage rides, music, and visits with Santa. Mr. Claus plans to light the tree at 7 p.m.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Forum is even taking donations that will be used toward San Diego fire relief efforts. &#8216;Tis the season to kick off Christmas at the mall. The party starts at 5 PM on Black Friday November 23, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/21\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/18_38_4811_20_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a mall. And the reason they&#8217;re having a Christmas Tree Lighting at all is to get you into the parking lot because once you&#8217;re there chances are you&#8217;ll buy something. But in the spirit of the season let&#8217;s just ignore that for a moment and think about how nice it will be to [&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":[9,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}