{"id":8082,"date":"2013-03-31T14:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2013-03-31T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:31:03","slug":"extra-extra-read-all-about-it-march-31-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=8082","title":{"rendered":"Extra! Extra! Read All About It! March 31, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8083\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=8083\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8083\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8083\" class=\" wp-image-8083 \" alt=\"Happy Easter!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-Bunny.jpg\" width=\"339\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-Bunny.jpg 565w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-Bunny-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-Bunny-551x1024.jpg 551w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-Bunny-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Easter-Bunny-400x743.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Easter!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We want to start by letting everyone know that we&#8217;ve joined FlipBoard (you can get the app for your iPhone and\/or your iPad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipboard.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). And we&#8217;re trying out the magazine feature&#8230; each week we&#8217;ll create a magazine of things that we&#8217;ve seen or done relating to Extra Walt Disney World Magic. We invite everyone to come by and check it out &#8211; we&#8217;re known as <strong>&#8220;Adults exploring Disney World&#8221;<\/strong> in FlipBoard! Let us know what you think and if you have any questions, feel free to post them here or send us an email at <strong>flip@extrawdwmagic.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget, we&#8217;re on twitter <strong>@extrawdwmagic<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Links to our posts from the past week&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">We present our first tasting of the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival for 2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=7944\" target=\"_blank\">the spring pancake at the Lotus House<\/a> (China booth), we weren&#8217;t very impressed, sad to say &#8211; but there are other items at this booth that we&#8217;re likely to try, such as the pan-fried vegetable bun<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Also, we attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=7829\" target=\"_blank\">our first professional baseball game at ESPN Wide World of Sports<\/a> &#8211; the Atlanta Braves against the Washington Nationals&#8230; of course, we had popcorn, peanuts, beer, and hot dogs at the game (no cracker jacks tho!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From around the ether&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">We didn&#8217;t make it over to The Grand Floridian to see their 2nd Annual Easter Egg display, but we do have some links so that you can take a virtual trip there yourself!<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>the DIS has some very good still photographs of the confectionary cum artwork (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wdwinfo.com\/2013\/03\/27\/2nd-annual-easter-egg-display-at-disneys-grand-floridian\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>allearsnet has some nice photos and a video (<a href=\"http:\/\/land.allears.net\/blogs\/allearsteam\/2013\/03\/2nd_annual_easter_egg_display.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>On The Go in MCO shows us how large and varied the display is (<a href=\"http:\/\/onthegoinmco.com\/2013\/03\/27\/disneys-grand-floridian-easter-eggs\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The interweb is chock full of information about the Flower &amp; Garden Festival (we&#8217;re waiting for the Easter and Spring Break crowds to disperse before going back for another trip around World Showcase)\n<ul>\n<li>FishyRocketBoy (a.k.a. Andy) has a long, photo filled post of his experiences there (<a href=\"http:\/\/eatingaroundwdw.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/25\/flower-garden-and-food-wine\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Sarah at EatingWDW has something to whet your appetite!\n<ul>\n<li>Spring Pancake and Pan-Fried Vegetable Bun at Lotus House (<a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/03\/27\/2013-international-flower-garden-festival-revisit-to-lotus-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Florida Groves Wines at the Florida Fresh booth (<a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/03\/28\/2013-international-flower-garden-festival-the-wines-of-florida-fresh\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sarah also joins us in the #2013eateachsandwich challenge @earlofsandwich &#8211; her entry this week&#8230; The Original 1762(r) (<a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/03\/29\/earl-of-sandwichs-the-original-1762\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) &#8211; we have a review of this sandwich coming in a couple of weeks! AND continuing with the &#8220;Eats at Downtown Disney&#8221; theme, she also has a review of the new &#8220;cone&#8221; sandwiches found at Marketplace Snacks (<a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/03\/29\/chili-cone-queso-meatball-cone\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Main Street Gazette has a nice piece on the Bread Service at Sanaa (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstgazette.com\/2013\/03\/serve-with-flair.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), makes our mouths water! You know how we love that bread service ! (2 posts from the past: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=7322\" target=\"_blank\">Dine with an Animal Specialist at Sanaa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=6194\" target=\"_blank\">Bread Service &amp; Salad Sampler at Sanaa<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>We recently discovered a new blog &#8220;Pixie Dusted Treats&#8221; from a current WDW cast member, <a href=\"http:\/\/pixiedustedtreats.com\/2013\/03\/cupcakin-seasonal-beach-club-vanilla-cupcake\/\" target=\"_blank\">check it out<\/a> if you&#8217;re into cupcakes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week. The weather has turned lovely and we&#8217;re eager to get outside and enjoy a bit of it! See you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-8083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Easter!<\/p>\n<p>We want to start by letting everyone know that we&#8217;ve joined FlipBoard (you can get the app for your iPhone and\/or your iPad here). And we&#8217;re trying out the magazine feature&#8230; each week we&#8217;ll create a magazine of things that we&#8217;ve seen or done relating to Extra Walt Disney World Magic. <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=8082\">Extra! Extra! Read All About It! March 31, 2013<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney-extras","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8087,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}