{"id":79515,"date":"2013-05-21T06:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79515"},"modified":"2013-05-21T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:51:30","slug":"business-news-mountain-bike-races-bring-big-bucks-to-local-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79515","title":{"rendered":"Business News &#8211; Mountain bike races bring big bucks to local economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">New study measures financial payoff of Oregon small town events<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A recent study in Oregon measured the effects of mountain bike races on the local economies. The research by Linfield College Professor Jeff McNamee documents the economic benefits of mountain biking events in the small Oregon towns of Bend and Oakridge. He also surveyed customers of a mountain bike tour company in Bend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oregon&#8217;s rural communities, particularly communities that once relied on timber revenues, are seeking new business models to sustain themselves, and many are looking to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/mountain-bike-races-bring-big-bucks-to-local-economies\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New study measures financial payoff of Oregon small town events A recent study in Oregon measured the effects of mountain bike races on the local economies. The research by Linfield College Professor Jeff McNamee documents the economic benefits of mountain biking events in the small Oregon towns of Bend and Oakridge. He also surveyed customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79517,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79515\/revisions\/79517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}