{"id":817,"date":"2005-11-15T22:13:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T02:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=817"},"modified":"2005-11-18T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T02:16:09","slug":"tourism-down-arthur-revving-up-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Tourism down: Arthur revving up campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span>ight in <a href=\".\/wp-content\/poornovascotia.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-poornovascotia.jpg' alt='wo_oops' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>time for a thorough op-ed here at xsamplex: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ns\/story\/tourism20051114.html\">Nova Scotia&#8217;s tourism is down<\/a>. Apparently, it&#8217;s gasoline and the Iraq war to blame. Like -uh-:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\"> &nbsp;[The Tourism minister, MacDonald]  says the province will concentrate on attracting new visitors from <em>Europe<\/em>, and from emerging tourist markets in China.\n<\/p>\n<p>We could always take the New York approach by begging people to come over to our violently<sup><\/sup> quiet province.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup>  This is almost too funny: I was actually thinking of the Dutch word &#8216;geweldig&#8217; (amazing) before penning down &#8216;violently&#8217;. One portion of my brain was thinking &#8216;geweldadig&#8217; (violence\/violently), hence the &#8216;violently&#8217;, which now turns out to be a Freudian slip.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right in time for a thorough op-ed here at xsamplex: Nova Scotia&#8217;s tourism is down. Apparently, it&#8217;s gasoline and the Iraq war to blame. Like -uh-: &nbsp;[The Tourism minister, MacDonald] says the province will concentrate on attracting new visitors from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=817\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}