{"id":1041,"date":"2019-08-13T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2019-08-13T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:46:15","slug":"outdoors-a-bright-spot-for-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/2019\/08\/13\/outdoors-a-bright-spot-for-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoors a bright spot for New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN<\/p>\n<p>By Lori Weigel and Dave Metz<\/p>\n<p>March 4, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>There is good news for New Mexicans who may be feeling like the last kid picked for the team during this economic turnaround.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>In the recent Conservation in the West Poll of voters in eight Mountain West states, New Mexico voters expressed economic angst far higher than their neighbors in the region around issues like low wages, unemployment and slow growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Amid the economic uncertainty, there is a bright spot. An overwhelming majority in New Mexico \u2014 84 percent \u2014 believe the outdoor economy is important to the economic future of their state. In fact, a majority say that this segment of the economy \u2014 which was defined as not only people coming to hunt, fish, camp and recreate in the state, but also those who manufacture and sell equipment for those activities \u2014 is \u201cvery important.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/opinion\/my_view\/outdoors-a-bright-spot-for-new-mexico\/article_26babdef-f163-55fb-8052-f0aca93557c2.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN By Lori Weigel and Dave Metz March 4, 2019 There is good news for New Mexicans who may be feeling like the last kid picked for the team during this economic turnaround. In the recent Conservation in the West Poll of voters in eight Mountain West states, New Mexico voters expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoor-recreation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palOvU-gN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}