{"id":266,"date":"2008-07-29T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localdev.bransontourist.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-07-30T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T02:10:41","slug":"here-comes-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/here-comes-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bransontourist.com-content\/uploads\/sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-274\" title=\"sun\" src=\"https:\/\/bransontourist.com-content\/uploads\/sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>I had to chuckle to myself the other day when I heard my four year old daughter sing \u2018Rain, Rain, Go Away, Lizzie and Daddy want to play!\u2019 There was a sprinkle coming down and we were having a ball playing in it. Business as usual at our place.<\/p>\n<p>Some business folks in Branson, however, aren\u2019t chuckling about rain.  Media reports would  have you believe that Branson ought to be changing its name to Atlantis, after the mythical underwater city. Unfortunately,  they\u2019re confusing this area with the flooding that occurred  in central Iowa, in the northern mid-west and along parts of the Mississippi River on Missouri\u2019s eastern border.<\/p>\n<p>Robert McCracken, head of the Branson Travel Agency, says that he\u2019s fielded numerous questions about the conditions in Branson. \u2018What I do is direct my customers to the Internet and show them that Branson remains unaffected.  As designed, the dams operated by U.S. Army Corp of Engineers handled the water in the region\u2019s lakes perfectly. We\u2019re flying guests into the airports in St. Louis, Springfield, Kansas City, Tulsa, and northwest Arkansas and they\u2019re having absolutely no problems getting here. Branson is open for business!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that we\u2019ve experienced almost a year\u2019s worth of rain in just seven or so months, but, with apologies to Mark Twain, the reports of Branson, Missouri being underwater are greatly exaggerated!<\/p>\n<p>Lizzie and I\u2019ll save some sunshine for you. See you in Branson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to chuckle to myself the other day when I heard my four year old daughter sing \u2018Rain, Rain, Go Away, Lizzie and Daddy want to play!\u2019 There was a sprinkle coming down and we were having a ball playing in it. Business as usual at our place. Some business folks in Branson, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}