{"id":473,"date":"2006-02-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/is-branson-changing-too-much"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"is-branson-changing-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Is Branson changing too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=4><\/FONT><\/P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=4>Why is it that a town that was made so popular because of its old fashioned charm,wonderful music, old fashioned look &amp; feeling of Silver Dollar City, &amp; the country atmosphere of the lake area, has to try &amp; change all of that &amp; become a big city atmosphere with all the lake landing area being developed &amp; all the development of business after business. All, I might add, with the same old same old items to sell. All made in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">China or <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Japan.<\/FONT><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=4> <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=4>For years ( about 30 years ) my family has been drawn to your area for all this old fashioned peaceful country charm &amp; all the unique handmade things to buy .All the great craftsmanship. For the last 5 to 10 years, each visit gets more &amp; more disappointing. Give us the old fashioned way of life for a few weeks a year of the old downtown Branson. Keep the old downtown area the way it was, that&#8217;s what has kept us coming back for so many years. Other vacation spot choices are starting to look better &amp; better. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=4> <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=4>Miss the old Branson. Gloria, Houson <st1:State w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Texas.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family has been drawn to your area for all this old fashioned peaceful\u2026<\/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-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}