{"id":10175,"date":"2011-09-07T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10175"},"modified":"2011-09-06T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T23:01:34","slug":"did-dan-aykroyd-just-diss-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/did-dan-aykroyd-just-diss-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Dan Aykroyd just diss us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3286984\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dan Aykroyd, you&#8217;ve got some explaining to do.<\/p>\n<p>Local fans might be wondering who they&#8217;re gonna call after the &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; and &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; star called Niagara Falls, New York &#8220;a little prettier&#8221; than its Canadian counterpart during an appearance across the river Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Aykroyd was promoting his Crystal Head Vodka at Supermarket Liquors on Niagara Falls Blvd. when he praised the American city as &#8220;one of the unpolished gems of American architecture.&#8221; As he received the key to the City from Mayor Paul Dyster, Aykroyd raved about the city&#8217;s infrastructure, original office buildings and power dams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Canada, we say we have the longer Falls and maybe the prettier ones,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I think the city of Niagara Falls, New York is a little prettier than Niagara Falls, Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a comment which made Niagara Falls Tourism chairman Wayne Thomson chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, he is a comedian,&#8221; he cracked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Dan Aykroyd, you&#8217;ve got some explaining to do. Local fans might be wondering who they&#8217;re gonna call after the &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; and &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; star called Niagara Falls, New York &#8220;a little prettier&#8221; than its Canadian counterpart during an appearance across the river Saturday. Aykroyd was promoting his Crystal Head&#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":[54,2],"tags":[6105,5104,6110,6106,6108,6107,5496,3361,10407,300,180,660,5448,6111,6109,845],"class_list":["post-10175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-american-architecture","tag-comedian","tag-crystal-head-vodka","tag-dan-aykroyd","tag-ghostbusters","tag-key-to-the-city","tag-niagara-falls-blvd","tag-niagara-falls-canada","tag-niagara-falls-new-york","tag-niagara-falls-ontario","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-paul-dyster","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-supermarket-liquors","tag-vodka","tag-wayne-thomson"],"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\/10175","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=10175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}