{"id":574,"date":"2011-01-07T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2011-01-09T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T21:53:12","slug":"fun-at-the-solvang-community-christmas-tree-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Fun at the burning of Christmas trees in Solvang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/tmp\/2011-01-07.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-575\" title=\"2011-01-07__SolvangTreeBurningMontage_598-152\" src=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-07__SolvangTreeBurningMontage-with-text_598-152.png\" alt width=\"598\" height=\"152\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago Jesse men\u00adtioned an annu\u00adal com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty mass burn\u00ading of Christ\u00admas trees in Solvang. Well I just perked right up at the image that brought to my mind and men\u00adtioned it to sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00aders. Car\u00adol and Vir\u00adginia were imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly on board with Lib\u00adby soon&nbsp;after.<\/p>\n<p>Three of us drove over Hwy. 154 dur\u00ading a beau\u00adti\u00adful pink cloud\u00aded sun\u00adset and met Lib\u00adby at the new \u201cThe Cow\u00adboy Way\u201d bar-b-que restau\u00adrant in Solvang for din\u00adner and a fun chat. Then it was on to the big event, held in the huge open field that adjoins Hwy. 246 and the San\u00adta Ynez Mis\u00adsion. Hun\u00addreds of oth\u00ader folks and fam\u00adi\u00adlies had arrived to&nbsp;watch.<\/p>\n<p>After a fire depart\u00adment demon\u00adstra\u00adtion show\u00ading us all how quick\u00adly a dry tree ignites as com\u00adpared to a tree that has been watered the big pile of trees was set aflame. The effect was def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly worth the dri\u00adve <strong>and<\/strong> dur\u00ading the entire show there was a con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous cycle of pop songs hav\u00ading lyrics con\u00adtain\u00ading fire, burn, light, etc. blar\u00ading out into the&nbsp;night.<\/p>\n<p>To see and hear some of our fire\u00adside fun click on the mon\u00adtage&nbsp;above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago Jesse men\u00adtioned an annu\u00adal com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty mass burn\u00ading of Christ\u00admas trees in Solvang. Well I just perked right up at the image that brought to my mind and men\u00adtioned it to sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00aders. Car\u00adol and Vir\u00adginia were imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly on board with Lib\u00adby soon&nbsp;after. Three of us drove over Hwy. 154 dur\u00ading a beau\u00adti\u00adful <a href=\"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=574\" class=\"excerpt-more\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}