{"id":889,"date":"2010-06-12T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-06-12T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T07:23:40","slug":"la-times-reports-more-small-businesses-offering-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"LA Times reports more small businesses offering gift cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-fi-0607-smallbiz-giftcards-20100607,0,3514793.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in the Los Angeles Times, about 8-10% of small businesses today offer gift cards, up from 2% two years ago.\u00a0 The costs of setting up to offer gift cards can be as low as $800 plus a small monthly fee.\u00a0 Many small business owners report selling many more gift cards than the paper gift certificates they previously offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article in the Los Angeles Times, about 8-10% of small businesses today offer gift cards, up from 2% two years ago.\u00a0 The costs of setting up to offer gift cards can be as low as $800 plus a small monthly fee.\u00a0 Many small business owners report selling many more gift cards than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}