{"id":36496,"date":"2018-08-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/sports-venues-tack-fee-on-to-each-ticket-sold\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:30:00","slug":"sports-venues-tack-fee-on-to-each-ticket-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/sports-venues-tack-fee-on-to-each-ticket-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports venues: Tack fee on to each ticket sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regarding a Safeco Field maintenance fee: What we need is a user fee tacked on to each ticket of $10. Thus, when the crowd for a Mariners game is 40,000, Safeco Field collects $400,000. Ten games yields $4 million.<\/p>\n

A user fee is the answer.<\/p>\n

– Larry Rochelle <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regarding a Safeco Field maintenance fee: What we need is a user fee tacked on to each ticket of $10. Thus, when the crowd for a Mariners game is 40,000, Safeco Field collects $400,000. Ten games yields $4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36496"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}