{"id":1343,"date":"2014-04-02T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2014-04-02T08:58:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:58:42","slug":"good-recognition-for-a-red-lodge-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/04\/good-recognition-for-a-red-lodge-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Good recognition for a Red Lodge entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1344\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1344\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" alt=\"Robsons\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robsons.png\" width=\"336\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robsons.png 336w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robsons-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\"> <\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary and Kathy Robson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Christian Science Monitor has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2014\/0401\/Montana-bookstore-owner-encourages-sharing-of-store-displays\">an interesting story<\/a> on Red Lodge bookstore owner <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/business\/red-lodge-store-offers-everything-you-need-to-chill-books\/article_6a674bd8-1f85-52b3-bcc5-d5136d5a4983.html\">Gary Robson<\/a>, a former computer programmer, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/garydrobson.com\/books\/who-pooped\/\">a popular series<\/a> of kids books and a knowledgeable vendor of cigars and tea as well as books.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Monitor reports that he has started two Pinterest group boards for the purpose of sharing in-store display ideas among bookstore owners, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/garyrobson\/creative-bookstore-windows\/\">one of the boards<\/a>\u00a0already has more than 300 followers.<\/p>\n<p>Gary and his wife Kathy, the owners of Red Lodge Books &amp; Tea, epitomize the kind of local business owners who make a place like Red Lodge unique. Every mom-and-pop operation in Red Lodge competes to some extent with the big-box, dark-star stores in Billings. People like Gary and Kathy have to work extra hard and be extra creative to bring people in and give them the incentive to come back.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see this kind of recognition in a newspaper with national circulation. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redlodgebooks.com\/\">the store online<\/a> and then stop in next time you&#8217;re in Red Lodge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story on Red Lodge bookstore owner Gary Robson, a former computer programmer, author of a popular series of kids books and a knowledgeable vendor of cigars and tea as well as books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[387,384,385,386,383],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-christian-science-monitor","tag-gary-robson","tag-kathy-robson","tag-red-lodge","tag-red-lodge-books-tea","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}