{"id":19568,"date":"2010-05-05T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_economy_is_on_the_mend\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:00:01","slug":"south_carolina_economy_is_on_the_mend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19568","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Economy is on the mend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increased hotel bookings, spending by foreign tourists and business recruitment deals are three indicators that South Carolina is pulling out of the long economic slump.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Mark Sanford got the good economic news Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting in which his agency directors told him that South Carolina is doing better in business recruitment and travel and tourism than neighboring states.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Prosser, director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, said the state&#8217;s recovery is more pronounced than in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, according to a benchmark that factors in hotel stays, available rooms and the price of the rooms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/may\/05\/on-the-mend\">Read it all from the front page of the local paper<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased hotel bookings, spending by foreign tourists and business recruitment deals are three indicators that South Carolina is pulling out of the long economic slump. Gov. Mark Sanford got the good economic news Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting in which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19568\">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":[40,54,582,589,149,600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568","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=19568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}