{"id":604,"date":"2006-08-17T07:28:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=604"},"modified":"2006-08-17T07:28:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T12:28:50","slug":"doing-your-730-billion-dollar-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/17\/doing-your-730-billion-dollar-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing your 730-billion-dollar duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re concerned about the economic health of this country, go play,&#8221; he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topix.net\/content\/cbs\/3241878342360029043614584118271224766712\">story about the Outdoor Retailer summer show <\/a>in Salt Lake City.  More on the numbers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The $730 billion figure, he said, represents the ripple effect of spending on bicycling, camping, fishing, hunting, paddling, snow sports, hiking and wildlife viewing.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nA person spends $61 on an average day trip, $115 on an average overnight trip and $185 a year for equipment, said Southwick, who got technical support from professors at four universities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who are these people who can withstand temptation and spend only 185 bucks in 365 days? OK, sane people; I&#8217;m just sayin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re concerned about the economic health of this country, go play,&#8221; he said. That&#8217;s from a story about the Outdoor Retailer summer show in Salt Lake City. More on the numbers: The $730 billion figure, he said, represents the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/17\/doing-your-730-billion-dollar-duty\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}