{"id":10037,"date":"2011-08-05T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2011-08-05T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:39:50","slug":"protecting-the-brand-niagara-falls-debates-tightrope-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/protecting-the-brand-niagara-falls-debates-tightrope-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the brand: Niagara Falls debates tightrope walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/story\/2011\/08\/04\/f-niagara-falls-brand.html\">CBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pitch by international daredevil Nik Wallenda to traverse Niagara Falls on a tightrope has provoked some local angst over what the historic tourist attraction is all about these days.<\/p>\n<p>On one side are those like the city&#8217;s mayor, Jim Diodati, who is in favour of bringing the seventh-generation member of the circus family the Great Wallendas to attempt the feat.<\/p>\n<p>On the other, are officials from the Niagara Parks Commission, among others, who say death-defying deeds like this no longer fit the falls&#8217; contemporary &#8220;brand&#8221; as a natural wonder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC News: The pitch by international daredevil Nik Wallenda to traverse Niagara Falls on a tightrope has provoked some local angst over what the historic tourist attraction is all about these days. On one side are those like the city&#8217;s mayor, Jim Diodati, who is in favour of bringing the seventh-generation member of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,2],"tags":[5930,105,5931,603,3317,41,99,5673,346,1989,4485],"class_list":["post-10037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-circus-family","tag-daredevil","tag-great-wallendas","tag-jim-diodati","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-tightrope","tag-tourist-attraction","tag-wire-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}