{"id":13610,"date":"2014-06-04T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T04:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2014-06-04T10:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T02:11:41","slug":"about-250000-of-public-money-put-into-failed-cape-breton-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/04\/about-250000-of-public-money-put-into-failed-cape-breton-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"About $250,000 of public money put into failed Cape Breton music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11099\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11099\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/money-corruption-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SYDNEY, N.S. &#8212; More than $250,000 in taxpayer money went into the failed Nashville Nor&#8217;east country music festival in Cape Breton.<\/p>\n<p>Blaming poor ticket sales, the Greater Sydney Festival and Event Society pulled the plug on the event last month.<\/p>\n<p>D.A. Landry, spokesman for Enterprise Cape Breton Corp., says the federal Crown corporation provided a $130,000 loan and a $100,000 grant to the event organizers in November.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Koffman, spokesman for Economic and Rural Development and Tourism, says the province provided about $25,700.<\/p>\n<p>Festival spokesmann Terry Smith said the society has been in contact with the funding partners and intends to make every possible effort to meet its commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The budget for the festival was originally set at $800,000 and the total targeted audience was 10,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, N.S. &#8212; More than $250,000 in taxpayer money went into the failed Nashville Nor&#8217;east country music festival in Cape &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145],"tags":[4584,4636,4635],"class_list":["post-13610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","tag-cape-breton","tag-failed","tag-music-festival","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}