{"id":5436,"date":"2010-07-12T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bp-to-sponsor-free-concerts-to-bring-tourism-to-the-coast\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:04:43","slug":"bp-to-sponsor-free-concerts-to-bring-tourism-to-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bp-to-sponsor-free-concerts-to-bring-tourism-to-the-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"BP to Sponsor Free Concerts to Bring Tourism to the Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BP plans to\u00a0fund concerts by\u00a0artists like Jack Johnson<\/strong><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p>A plethora of free beach concerts may be in the future of the Alabama coast, courtesy of BP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday thousands of people crowded in for a free Jimmy Buffet concert at the beach in Gulf Shores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they hope to bring in a string of big-name performers through the fall with funding from BP, whose tremendous oil spill has greatly damaged tourism on the Gulf of Mexico coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faith Hill, Jack Johnson, and Zac Brown are some of the prospective acts according to promoters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The free shows would help to bring in visitors to the beach where Buffet played while generating business for hotels, condominiums, restaurants and stores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<\/em><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP plans to\u00a0fund concerts by\u00a0artists like Jack Johnson A plethora of free beach concerts may be in the future of the Alabama coast, courtesy of BP. &nbsp; On Sunday thousands of people crowded in for a free Jimmy Buffet concert at the beach in Gulf Shores. &nbsp; Officials say they hope to bring in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168638,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/97168638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}