{"id":830,"date":"2009-02-07T07:20:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T03:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2009-02-25T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T03:22:58","slug":"river-rats-near-drowning-as-economy-hits-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"River Rats near drowning as economy hits sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-831\" title=\"river-rat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/river-rat-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"river-rat\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>The River Rats are paddling against the current, trying to keep North Quabbin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premiere community event alive.<\/p>\n<p>The Athol Lions Club, the event\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s organizers, has had to deal with loss of sponsors, cutbacks in the communities where the race is held and hazards in the river that require members to rethink where the start will be. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said David Flint of the Lions Club. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the alternative? Not to have it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Flint said the race will be held this year, but the future is in doubt if the club continues to lose sponsors&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20090207\/NEWS\/902070344\/1006\/NEWS07\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The River Rats are paddling against the current, trying to keep North Quabbin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premiere community event alive. The Athol Lions Club, the event\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s organizers, has had to deal with loss of sponsors, cutbacks in the communities where the race is held and hazards in the river that require members to rethink where the start will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}