{"id":10171,"date":"2011-09-01T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2011-09-01T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:16:17","slug":"maid-of-the-mist-captain-retires-after-36-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/maid-of-the-mist-captain-retires-after-36-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Maid of the Mist Captain retires after 36 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3280784\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His first time out, Malcolm Bunting kept thinking that it goes against all common sense and seamanship to go toward a waterfall of that size.<\/p>\n<p>He did it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>That was 36 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The giant waterfall was the Horseshoe Falls and his job was with the Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had never carried passengers before and I kept thinking, &#8216;Oh my God, what am I doing here.&#8217; Over the years you get used to it and it becomes routine,&#8221; said Cpt. Bunting.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old retired Wednesday night after making his final trip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: His first time out, Malcolm Bunting kept thinking that it goes against all common sense and seamanship to go toward a waterfall of that size. He did it anyway. That was 36 years ago. The giant waterfall was the Horseshoe Falls and his job was with the Maid 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":[3,2],"tags":[2384,142,3273,88,2178,6097,41,1139,1904],"class_list":["post-10171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-captain","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-job","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-maid-of-the-mist-steamboat-company","tag-malcolm-bunting","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-waterfall"],"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\/10171","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=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}