{"id":616,"date":"2007-07-12T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2007-07-12T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T20:12:47","slug":"hensleys-flying-elephant-grand-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Hensley&#8217;s Flying Elephant Grand Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/hensley.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/hensley.jpg','popup','width=395,height=550,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\/07\/hensley-tm.jpg\" height=\"139\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Hensley\" \/><\/a>Most of the time we&#8217;re quite happy linking out to other media sites for coverage, however, occasionally we&#8217;re bummed when we miss covering an event in person. The Grand Opening of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=139347711\" target=\"_blank\">Hensley&#8217;s Flying Elephant Pub and Grill<\/a><\/strong>, at Tamarack and I-5 is one we should have attended. Luckily for us <strong>Amanda Branam<\/strong> and photographer <strong>Sean DuFrene<\/strong> of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayslocalnews.com\/?sect=sports&amp;p=3465\" target=\"_blank\">Todayslocalnews.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong> covered all the goodness as former <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floggingmolly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flogging Molly<\/a><\/strong> accordionist <strong>Matt Hensley<\/strong> celebrated with friends and family. It looks like the pro <strong>skateboarder<\/strong> is finally settling down.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always made a living doing odd things. I made a living skateboarding and playing accordion. I still play accordion, and now I own a pub,&#8221; said Hensley, who celebrated the grand opening of Hensley&#8217;s Flying Elephant Pub and Grill yesterday in Carlsbad. &#8220;Owning this pub is probably the most legitimate thing I&#8217;ve done in my life. Or the most common thing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for all the details on <strong>Hensley&#8217;s Flying Elephant Pub and Grill<\/strong>, and the man himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayslocalnews.com\/?sect=sports&amp;p=3465\" target=\"_blank\">Todayslocalnews.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time we&#8217;re quite happy linking out to other media sites for coverage, however, occasionally we&#8217;re bummed when we miss covering an event in person. The Grand Opening of Hensley&#8217;s Flying Elephant Pub and Grill, at Tamarack and I-5 is one we should have attended. Luckily for us Amanda Branam and photographer Sean [&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":[30,8,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}