{"id":234942,"date":"2020-05-05T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/?p=234942"},"modified":"2020-05-05T08:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:36:02","slug":"downtown-midland-bia-initiatives-pushing-people-to-shop-local-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/downtown-midland-bia-initiatives-pushing-people-to-shop-local-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Midland BIA initiatives pushing people to shop local amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An up-to-date list of businesses currently operating has been compiled at downtownmidland.ca and shared with local tourism organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes website links and indicates whether the business is offering takeout, delivery, curbside pickup or online sales. Other BIA initiatives include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A giveaway of $250 Downtown Dollars, meant to encourage residents to shop downtown in any way possible. Proof of purchase must be submitted to <a href=\"mailto:downtownmidlandbia@gmail.com\">downtownmidlandbia@gmail.com<\/a>. A ballot is earned for every $10 spent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simcoe.com\/news-story\/9966314-downtown-midland-bia-initiatives-pushing-people-to-shop-local-amid-pandemic\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An up-to-date list of businesses currently operating has been compiled at downtownmidland.ca and shared with local tourism organizations. The list includes website links and indicates whether the business is offering takeout, delivery, curbside pickup or online sales. Other BIA initiatives include: A giveaway of $250 Downtown Dollars, meant to encourage residents to shop downtown in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}