{"id":223489,"date":"2015-12-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/la-mesa-celebrates-streetscapes-shimmer\/"},"modified":"2015-12-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T08:00:00","slug":"la-mesa-celebrates-streetscapes-shimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/la-mesa-celebrates-streetscapes-shimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"La Mesa celebra el &#039;Shimmer&#039; del paisaje urbano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos by Jeff Clemetson<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The city of La Mesa celebrated the completion of a streetscape project along La Mesa Boulevard on Dec. 9 with a street-lighting ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 people were on hand to witness Mayor Mark Arapostathis and the City Council flip the switch on the holiday lights strung around the Village for the event billed as \u201cLa Mesa Shimmer.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1938\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6213webtop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1938\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1938 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6213webtop.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6213webtop\" width=\"605\" height=\"350\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 605px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 605\/350;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolers from the Peter Pan Junior Theater join the Sam Johnson Trio for a holiday song. (Photo by Jeff Clemetson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to the lighting ceremony, music and entertainment were performed by the Peter Pan Junior Theater, Sam Johnson Trio, and Fanny and the Atta Boys.<\/p>\n<p>The La Mesa Shimmer event marked the end of construction for the streetscape project that began in July 2014. The $5 million project updated the city\u2019s downtown dining and shopping district with updated sidewalks, crosswalks, trees, street furniture and lighting.<\/p>\n<p><em>More photos by Jeff Clemetson:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1979\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6233web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1979\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6233web.jpg\" alt=\"La Mesa Mayor Mark Arapostathis flips the switch to light up La Mesa Boulevard.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Mesa Mayor Mark Arapostathis flips the switch to light up La Mesa<br \/>Boulevard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1980\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6219web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1980\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6219web.jpg\" alt=\"La Mesa Village decked-out for the holidays\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/900;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Mesa Village decked-out for the holidays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6225web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1981\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1981 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6225web.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6225web\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos by Jeff Clemetson<\/p>","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":222438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"La Mesa celebrates streetscape\u2019s \u2018Shimmer\u2019","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548,11551,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}