{"id":19116,"date":"2022-01-12T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=19116"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:16:53","slug":"polk-county-has-extended-a-marketing-deal-with-legoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/polk-county-has-extended-a-marketing-deal-with-legoland\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County has extended a marketing deal with Legoland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County has extended a marketing deal&nbsp;with Legoland for another five years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"546\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LEGOLAND.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LEGOLAND.jpg 970w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LEGOLAND-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LEGOLAND-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement with\u00a0Legoland owner Merlin Entertainment LLC, unanimously approved by the Polk county commission on Jan. 3, stipulates that the\u00a0county pitch in $375,000 a year over the next five years\u00a0\u2014 a total of $1.8 million\u00a0\u2014 to help the Winter Haven theme park pay for advertising materials across the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County will also pay an additional one-time expense of $99,500 for a new visitor station at the park&#8217;s entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The county will use money from its tourism fund&nbsp;\u2014 a segment of the budget&nbsp;that includes bed-tax revenue&nbsp;\u2014 to contribute its share of the marketing arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County has extended a marketing deal&nbsp;with Legoland for another five years.&nbsp; The agreement with\u00a0Legoland owner Merlin Entertainment LLC, unanimously approved by the Polk county commission on Jan. 3, stipulates&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[2156],"class_list":["post-19116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-polk-county-has-extended-a-marketing-deal-with-legoland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}