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By C. MacDonald<\/strong><\/p>\n COSTA MESA, CA–Costa Mesa Mayor Will Jordan once told his young son Jim that he would be part of City Hall someday. Nearly half a century later, Jim’s amazing Peanuts-inspired character\u00a0were\u00a0displayed\u00a0in front of City Hall.\u00a0\u00a0 Jim began his impressive creations in 1967. The Snoopy House, just like Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, took on a life of its own as people from around the globe heard about it from friends or in the media and made their holiday plans to visit Costa Mesa to see this Christmas institution. Eventually the crowds grew to more than 80,000 spectators each holiday season.\u00a0In 2011, when the property hosting the Snoopy House was foreclosed, the City of Costa Mesa stepped in …read more<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By C. MacDonald COSTA MESA, CA–Costa Mesa Mayor Will Jordan once told his young son Jim that he would be part of City Hall someday. Nearly half a century later, Jim’s amazing Peanuts-inspired character\u00a0were\u00a0displayed\u00a0in front of City Hall.\u00a0\u00a0 Jim began his impressive creations in 1967. The Snoopy House, just like Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}