{"id":6554,"date":"2016-12-12T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/?p=6554"},"modified":"2017-05-30T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T04:36:24","slug":"shop-locally-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/shop-locally-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOP LOCALLY AT CHRISTMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just 14 days until Christmas, Gippsland MP Darren Chester is encouraging locals to continue embracing the Shop Local message.<br \/>\nMr Chester congratulated the Latrobe Valley Express and local small business community on their \u2018Buy Local \u2013 Shop Latrobe\u2019 campaign, which was launched to encourage locals to support small businesses in the Latrobe Valley.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is important that at all levels we are talking positively about the Latrobe Valley,\u201d Mr Chester said.<br \/>\n\u201cSmall and medium businesses are a critical part of our local economy and despite the immediate challenges with Hazelwood, we do have a bright future ahead.<br \/>\n\u201cBy spending money locally, we are helping to create jobs. If we want our kids to have jobs, and if we want to keep families in the Latrobe Valley, then we need to support local businesses wherever possible.\u201d<br \/>\nThe \u2018Buy Local \u2013 Shop Latrobe\u2019 campaign partners include Advance Morwell, Moe Traders Association, Traralgon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Morwell Traders Group and Latrobe City Business and Tourism Association. <\/p>\n<p>Member for Gippsland Darren Chester with small business owner Brenton Wight from Solomon\u2019s Flooring and National Tiles in Traralgon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just 14 days until Christmas, Gippsland MP Darren Chester is encouraging locals to continue embracing the Shop Local message. Mr Chester congratulated the Latrobe Valley Express and local small business community on their \u2018Buy Local \u2013 Shop Latrobe\u2019 campaign, which was launched to encourage locals to support small businesses in the Latrobe Valley. \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2107,154,516,2101,2100],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}