{"id":150,"date":"2008-06-22T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T21:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-06-22T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T21:06:48","slug":"smile-at-a-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/22\/smile-at-a-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"SMILE AT A TOURIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a rather amusing story that made the front page of the <a title=\"Isle of Wight County Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwcp.co.uk\/News\/SMILE_AT_A_TOURIST_ISLANDERS_URGED_1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Wight County Press<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0this weekend, entitled &#8216;Smile at a tourist, Islanders urged&#8217;. Richard Wright writes<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;PEOPLE have been urged to smile at a tourist to counter economic slowdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MainContent_ctl00_lblContent\">The message from the deputy leader of the Isle of Wight Council, Cllr George Brown, that Islanders should not grit their teeth but welcome tourists with open arms, came at Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting of the full council.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MainContent_ctl00_lblContent\">Tory Cllr Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message drew comparison with party leader David Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &#8216;hug a hoodie&#8217; plea.<br \/>\nCllr Brown, who is also cabinet member for the economy and leisure, presented an economic strategy for regeneration of the Island, which he said would be followed by an action plan.<br \/>\n&#8216;It is important we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just lay down and play dead. Islanders need to smile at tourists \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because we need their income,&#8217; he said.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been here twenty four hours and about three people have already smiled at me!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a rather amusing story that made the front page of the Isle of Wight County Press\u00c2\u00a0this weekend, entitled &#8216;Smile at a tourist, Islanders urged&#8217;. Richard Wright writes &#8220;PEOPLE have been urged to smile at a tourist to counter economic slowdown. The message from the deputy leader of the Isle of Wight Council, Cllr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}