{"id":85,"date":"2009-05-01T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/road-to-california\/85\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:44:00","slug":"85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/85\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vI9jugivA9g\/SftxBGMevTI\/AAAAAAAAAOk\/PWqqYBEI5Ng\/s1600-h\/Salad.jpg\"><\/a>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_vI9jugivA9g\/SftwYSrGx4I\/AAAAAAAAAOU\/5pMNAQ8kutY\/s1600-h\/Eating_Outside.jpg\"><\/a>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Little Known Facts,<\/div>\n\n  \n\n<p><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p>We have put the 2009 Road to California Quilters Conference to bed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>The bills are paid, taxes are done and all the other loose threads have been tied into neat little bows.<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p>I thought you would like to know some fun facts about the show. <\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p style=\"margin-left:38.4pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1\"><span style=\"font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;\"><span style=\"mso-list:Ignore\">\u00b7<span style=\"font:7.0pt \"Times New Roman\"\">      <\/span><\/span><\/span>The attendance over the four-day period was 17,000.<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p style=\"margin-left:38.4pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1\"><span style=\"font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;\"><span style=\"mso-list:Ignore\">\u00b7<span style=\"font:7.0pt \"Times New Roman\"\">      <\/span><\/span><\/span>The largest attendance was on Saturday, then Friday, then Thursday.<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p style=\"margin-left:38.4pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1\"><span style=\"font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;\"><span style=\"mso-list:Ignore\">\u00b7<span style=\"font:7.0pt \"Times New Roman\"\">      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Sunday was the least attended.<\/p>\n\n  \n\n<p style=\"margin-left:38.4pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1\"><span style=\"font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;\"><span style=\"mso-list:Ignore\">\u00b7<span style=\"font:7.0pt \"Times New Roman\"\">      <\/span><\/span><\/span>More than 2200 hotel rooms in Ontario were booked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:38.4pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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