{"id":1984,"date":"2008-02-16T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2008-02-16T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T00:26:31","slug":"protesting-the-wal-martification-of-carlsbad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Protesting The Wal-Martification of Carlsbad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/21-24-262-14-08.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/21-24-262-14-08.jpg','popup','width=400,height=566,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\/02\/21-24-262-14-08-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"21 24 262 14 08\" \/><\/a>From <strong><em>The San DIego Union-Tribune<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About three dozen protesters defied a morning downpour Thursday to demonstrate against construction of a Wal-Mart in central Carlsbad.<\/p>\n<p>The group waved signs encouraging motorists to honk if they opposed the giant retailer&#8217;s intentions to build on the northwest corner of El Camino Real and College Boulevard.<br \/>\nRob Abbott, a leader of the group opposing a Wal-Mart, said the reasons for the opposition are many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the real reason we&#8217;re opposed is it doesn&#8217;t fit the makeup of Carlsbad,\u201d said Abbott, who lives in Terraces at Sunny Creek, across College Boulevard from Wal-Mart&#8217;s property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Give &#8217;em hell, Rob. And let us know when the next protest is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080214-1841-bn14walmart.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong> and<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/15\/news\/coastal\/21_24_262_14_08.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The San DIego Union-Tribune: About three dozen protesters defied a morning downpour Thursday to demonstrate against construction of a Wal-Mart in central Carlsbad. The group waved signs encouraging motorists to honk if they opposed the giant retailer&#8217;s intentions to build on the northwest corner of El Camino Real and College Boulevard. Rob Abbott, a [&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":[8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984"}],"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=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}