{"id":2877,"date":"2011-05-24T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2011-05-24T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:50:30","slug":"butterfly-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who always enjoyed the butterfly house at Epcot Flower and Garden Festival, 2011 brought a surprise. \u00a0If you walked toward World Showcase from the fountain in Future World and turned left to find the butterfly house &#8211; you may have feared all was lost. \u00a0Where the butterfly house had encircled the walkway &#8211; it was open. \u00a0A straight walk past the new Pixie Hollow and on toward Test Track. \u00a0What happened? \u00a0No butterflies?<\/p>\n<p>If you turned to go to the nearest stand to grab a festival guide you may have happily noticed that on the opposite side of the main walkway (behind Ice Station Cool) was a much larger enclosure. \u00a0If you didn&#8217;t notice, grabbing a guide would have quickly shown that the butterfly house had grown and become Bambi&#8217;s Butterfly House. \u00a0Well, not so much a house now but a large mesh tent. \u00a0Going inside it was held up with huge tent poles and the netting draped and hung. \u00a0I never asked a cast member but my estimate is that the tent was about four times the size of the old screened house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/butterfly-house\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-18.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-18\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/butterfly-house\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-19.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-19\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their were larger plants and all the usual flowers to attract the butterflies. \u00a0There were water features and more displays. \u00a0Each time I visited it was very crowded. \u00a0This proved that even with the much larger tent that the butterflies remain a very popular part of the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. \u00a0If you didn&#8217;t stop by in 2011 put it on your list for 2012!<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who always enjoyed the butterfly house at Epcot Flower and Garden Festival, 2011 brought a surprise. If you walked toward World Showcase from the fountain in Future World and turned left to find the butterfly house &#8211; you may have feared all was lost. Where the butterfly house had encircled the <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2877\">Butterfly House<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epcot-flower-garden-festival","tag-epcot-theme-park","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}