{"id":179,"date":"2004-04-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/is-branson-affordable"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"is-branson-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Is Branson Affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=3>I have been coming to Branson for the last 25+ years.  It was a place I could afford to take my family to and not worry about going into a show that was not family valued.<BR><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=3>I read the article about some businesses losing 30% or more of their business.  This is understandable.  Many working stiff simply cannot afford Branson anylonger.  Working stiffs made Branson, not the well offs.<\/FONT><\/DIV><BR><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=3>I see not you want to impose a tourism tax to promote Branson.  It doesn\\&#8217;t need promoted, it is well known.  Branson is pricing itself out of the market.<\/FONT><\/DIV><BR><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=3>I generally come there two times a year.  Last year I did not come at all.  I do plan to come this year, but probably only one time.<\/FONT><\/DIV><BR><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=3>George Allen, Texas<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> It was a place I could afford to take my family&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}