{"id":3548,"date":"2011-07-03T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T00:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2011-07-04T06:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:02:42","slug":"surprise-theres-no-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"SURPRISE!! There&#8217;s No Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dsc06539b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3555\" title=\"Dsc06539b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dsc06539b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dsc06539b-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dsc06539b-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dsc06539b.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mayor John Buchanan just announced in an interview with Channel 5, KTLA, that the big surprise (an elephant in the parade) has been cancelled.\u00a0 Citing concerns that the controversy that has been created around this would detract from the parade,\u00a0and that security concerns were also an issue, he said that there would no longer be an elephant in the parade, as the 4th of July Committee had intended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s video of Buchanan and the Channel 5 reporter.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">I have additional video and more to write, but I&#8217;m supposed to be working at the dunk tank right now (I was there setting up when I saw the interviewer and Buchanan and grabbed my camera), so that will have to wait until later this evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- This is the Embed code for Elephant in Parade Cancelled Delete all of this code to remove the video--><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=25947077&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=&amp;show_byline=&amp;show_portrait=&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=25947077&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=&amp;show_byline=&amp;show_portrait=&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=25947077&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=&amp;show_byline=&amp;show_portrait=&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" data=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=25947077&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=&amp;show_byline=&amp;show_portrait=&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- The Embed code for Elephant in Parade Cancelled Ends here--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor John Buchanan just announced in an interview with Channel 5, KTLA, that the big surprise (an elephant in the parade) has been cancelled.\u00a0 Citing concerns that the controversy that has been created around this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,4],"tags":[94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}