{"id":81730,"date":"2015-09-11T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=81730"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:23:25","slug":"welk-home-attendance-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=81730","title":{"rendered":"Welk home attendance up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21956\" alt=\"welkhome2small\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Officials say attendance rose slightly at the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk after the state took over the site this summer<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But with only a few hundred tourists each paying $5 to see the birthplace of the polka-playing bandleader, officials says there likely will never be enough tourists visiting the site to cover costs for its operations.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Site manager Diane Rogness says since the state took over operations July 1, about 730 people in July and August visited homestead in Strasburg.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last year, only about 650 people visited the site.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature two years ago approved $100,000 to purchase the property from Welk\u2019s nieces<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rogness says the Welk farmstead, like most other historic sites in the state, was never intended to be a moneymaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Officials say attendance rose slightly at the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk after the state took over the site this summer \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But with only a few hundred tourists each paying $5 to see the birthplace of the polka-playing bandleader, officials says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81732,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730\/revisions\/81732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}