{"id":12869,"date":"2012-05-09T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2012-05-27T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T21:28:15","slug":"rose-garden-reconnaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/09\/rose-garden-reconnaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Garden Reconnaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drove down to Balboa Park<\/a> to check out the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden<\/a> as a possible location for our family’s surprise get together in a few days for a combined Mother’s Day\/birthday party for my mom. What was supposed to be a quick recon and walk-through turned into more than on an hour of taking over two hundred pictures. There were a lot of roses and I got caught up in all the different colors.<\/p>\n

I may have gone a bit overboard, but in my defense it was my first time there, it was a beautiful day and I had a camera.<\/p>\n

( r o s y \u00a0 p i c s )<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drove down to Balboa Park to check out the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden as a possible location for our family’s surprise get together in a few days for a combined Mother’s Day\/birthday party for my mom. What was supposed to be a quick recon and walk-through turned into more than on an hour … <\/p>\n

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