{"id":1572,"date":"2009-02-10T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2009-02-10T00:57:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T05:57:09","slug":"free-snow-in-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Free Snow in OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some places, like Calgary, kids know what snow is. In other places, like Orange County, kids hear about snow, they see snow on TV, and if they&#8217;re lucky they travel to places with snow, but they don&#8217;t get snow at home.<\/p>\n<p>So it creates some excitement when a park (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocgp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Park<\/a>) decides to truck in several tons of snow to show the local kids a good time FOR FREE. Yep, on Valentine&#8217;s Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocgp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Park<\/a> will provide snow for sledding and throwing and eating from 1pm-4pm. Then from 4-10pm, an ice skating rink will open up in the old airplane hangar (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocgp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Park<\/a> is being built on top of an old air force base) and skating AND skate rentals will also be free.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Park is also where you can go on a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocgp.org\/gpb\/\" target=\"_blank\"> free hot air balloon ride<\/a>, which I posted about last year <a href=\"\/2007\/12\/01\/two-fun-things-to-do-over-the-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to go again the weekend before last, but the timed tickets were all gone for the day. We took pictures though &#8211; look at what Bella and Dawkins are wearing and you can see what kind of winter we&#8217;ve been having down here. (Although to be honest, it&#8217;s been colder and rainier since then&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/Picture1285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some places, like Calgary, kids know what snow is. In other places, like Orange County, kids hear about snow, they see snow on TV, and if they&#8217;re lucky they travel to places with snow, but they don&#8217;t get snow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socal-attractions","category-south-oc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}