{"id":2150,"date":"2015-12-17T00:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/chill-out-with-santa-at-the-north-pole-at-houghton-park\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T00:10:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:10:40","slug":"chill-out-with-santa-at-the-north-pole-at-houghton-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/chill-out-with-santa-at-the-north-pole-at-houghton-park","title":{"rendered":"Chill Out with Santa at the North Pole at Houghton Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-45691\" style=\"float: left;\" alt=\"Snow Flyer\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Snow_Flyer.jpg\" height=\"360\" width=\"300\" \/>Houghton Park will be transformed into a winter wonderland, courtesy of Councilmember Rex Richardson, joined by the Long Beach Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine and SEIU Local 72. The Let It Snow at the North Pole event will take place on Saturday, December 19 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM.<\/p>\n<p>All are invited to join Santa Claus in the Uptown festivities, where cookies will be served, toys given away and snow spread throughout the premises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Long Beach residents deserve a snow day!\u201d said Richardson in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m proud to be co-sponsoring this event to bring the holiday spirit to Uptown and allow our kids to experience the magic of Santa in our own Houghton Park. I hope to see everyone there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This event will also give the community an opportunity to enjoy the newest feature of the park, the Fitness Zone, according to the release. The revitalization of Houghton Park and its community center are a key piece in Councilmember Richardson\u2019s Roadmap to the Renaissance. <\/p>\n<p>For more information or to RSVP, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidedistrict9.com\">here<\/a>\u00a0or call 562.570.6137.<\/p>\n<p><em>Houghton Park is located at 6301 Myrtle Avenue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{FG_GEOMAP [33.8704432,-118.1824742] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houghton Park will be transformed into an Uptown winter wonderland at The Let It Snow at the North Pole event on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":67514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1024,1025],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-houghton-park","tag-rex-richardson","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}