{"id":4441,"date":"2011-07-06T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2011-07-18T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:06:53","slug":"morning-read-a-reality-of-the-toursim-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/06\/morning-read-a-reality-of-the-toursim-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: a reality of the toursim economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working on the major holidays. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/525394\/Working-on-the-Fourth.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> did a nice thing today by acknowledging all the folks who make a seasonal town go. They work the gas stations, the ice cream stands and the convenience stores when most people are enjoying a big day off.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be one of these people, lifeguarding crowded beaches in Glens Falls and, later,\u00a0 Moreau State Park. The city beaches, then Haviland&#8217;s Cove and East Field, were a trip. Wonderful locales in &#8220;tough&#8221; neighborhoods, with the same kids coming every day and their parents and other grown-ups crowding in on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>This was in the late 60s. I don&#8217;t know if the Haviland&#8217;s Cove beach (on the Hudson in West Glens Falls)\u00a0 is still open or not (someone can chime in here I hope!) but in the day there was a concession stand picnic area, and families would come and spend hours&#8230;and sometimes, drink a few beers. There were interesting events. One day Katie, a lifeguard who&#8217;s family lived up the street, finally broke up an ongoing argument by picking up an oar and chasing the two guys out of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, a tip of the hat to all the people who work so long and so hard to make a living in a tourism economy, and keep us all gassed up and fed as we enjoy our vacations and holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on the major holidays. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise did a nice thing today by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}