{"id":1487,"date":"2010-01-07T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/07\/lake-placids-new-tourism-moniker-roost\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:08:00","slug":"lake-placids-new-tourism-moniker-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/07\/lake-placids-new-tourism-moniker-roost\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Placid&#8217;s new tourism moniker: &quot;Roost&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that the organization formerly known as the Lake Placid-Essex County Visitors Bureau is rebranding itself.<br \/><span><span><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">The organization will now be known by its acronym of ROOST, said President James McKenna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a good thing. We struggled to come up with something we could use in an acronym. It better describes what we do. It\u2019s really what we\u2019ve been talking about.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">McKenna also acknowledged that some people in Essex County, who fund the organization, &#8220;didn&#8217;t like that we had Lake Placid in our name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">Roost.  Does that express the cozy, Adirondacky thing we want tourists to experience?  Or is that what chickens come home to do?<\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\"><span><span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">Read Lohr McKinstry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/midday\/local_story_007114819.html\">full coverage here<\/a> and offer your opinion.  <\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that the organization formerly known as the Lake Placid-Essex County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}