{"id":4135,"date":"2026-01-27T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:07:10","slug":"tempe-blooms-1-26-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"Tempe Blooms 1\/26\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4135\" class=\"elementor elementor-4135\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ea6ce9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ea6ce9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3740b85\" data-id=\"3740b85\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d553c86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d553c86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Downtown Tempe was in full bloom yesterday. The downtown district had been transformed into a breathtaking floral wonderland, featuring 21 floral displays crafted by local floral designers.\u00a0 There were also bands and live muralists!\u00a0 \u00a0Luna and I went down to check it out, and although it was beautiful, it was waaaaay too crowded!!\u00a0 Poor Luna was lost among the thousands of feet!\u00a0 (I really may have to end up getting her a dog stroller for events like this!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fd78318 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fd78318\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column 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https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_1922-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e7df66f\" data-id=\"e7df66f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3424f48 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3424f48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_1898.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4160\" alt=\"\" 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I&#8217;m glad we had a chance to see it once, but next year I&#8217;ll probably pass!\u00a0 Usually there are fun food booths at these events and there was exactly ONE!\u00a0 One Pretzel stand!\u00a0 They wanted the people to take advantage of all the restaurants in Tempe.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure people that are at an event like this want to wait for a table and sit down and eat!\u00a0 I really would rather just walk and snack!\u00a0 Oh well&#8230; The planning committee never asked my opinion!!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a03ca4a\" data-id=\"a03ca4a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-09ba147 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The downtown district had been transformed into a breathtaking floral wonderland, featuring 21 floral displays crafted by local floral designers.\u00a0 There were also bands and live muralists!\u00a0 \u00a0Luna and I went down to check it out, and although it was beautiful, it was waaaaay too crowded!!\u00a0 Poor Luna was lost among the thousands of feet!\u00a0 (I really may have to end up getting her a dog stroller for events like this! I&#8217;m glad we had a chance to see it once, but next year I&#8217;ll probably pass!\u00a0 Usually there are fun food booths at these events and there was exactly ONE!\u00a0 One Pretzel stand!\u00a0 They wanted the people to take advantage of all the restaurants in Tempe.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure people that are at an event like this want to wait for a table and sit down and eat!\u00a0 I really would rather just walk and snack!\u00a0 Oh well&#8230; The planning committee never asked my opinion!!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-day-trips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirement-rocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}