{"id":11873,"date":"2009-03-23T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/congress_hypocrisy_on_company_trips_irks_us_hotel_industr\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:00:32","slug":"congress_hypocrisy_on_company_trips_irks_us_hotel_industr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11873","title":{"rendered":"Congress \u201d\u02dcHypocrisy\u2019 on Company Trips Irks U.S. Hotel Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The executives said the political attacks are having a broad effect on their business &#8212; even though the restrictions are intended to apply only to recipients of federal bailout money &#8212; and cancellations have been increasing as the rhetoric heats up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen companies cancel meetings last minute, leaving 100 percent on the table just to avoid criticism and ridicule,\u201d\u009d said Frits van Paasschen, president and chief executive of White Plains, New York-based Starwood Hotels &#038; Resorts Worldwide Inc., the third-largest U.S. lodging company, who attended the White House meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=aRQWnoXi_6Zk&#038;refer=worldwide\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executives said the political attacks are having a broad effect on their business &#8212; even though the restrictions are intended to apply only to recipients of federal bailout money &#8212; and cancellations have been increasing as the rhetoric heats<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11873\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,617,151,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-politics-in-general","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}