{"id":10469,"date":"2011-12-30T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10469"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:46:50","slug":"sleep-cheap-exceeds-1-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/sleep-cheap-exceeds-1-million-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Cheap exceeds $1-million mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3414421\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They made it!<\/p>\n<p>The annual Sleep Cheap Charities Reap event raised $175,988 this year, which pushes their eight year history total over the $1-million mark.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jim Diodati said when they started this event they had no idea that &#8220;it would just grow wings and take off like this. We are very proud of the fact that 100 % of the money goes directly to local Niagara charities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event added a fifth night this year on Sunday, Nov. 13, and organizers were confident they would break the $1-million mark before it wrapped up on Nov. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven hotels offered a record 7,800 room nights to only Niagara region residents as a way of letting them know what&#8217;s available and hopefully spreading the word when family and friends visit this area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the benefits we have of living in a tourist town for all the locals,&#8221; said Diodati.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: They made it! The annual Sleep Cheap Charities Reap event raised $175,988 this year, which pushes their eight year history total over the $1-million mark. Mayor Jim Diodati said when they started this event they had no idea that &#8220;it would just grow wings and take off like this. We&#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":[2],"tags":[643,2204,6645,61,603,2315,41,431,2631,506,644,6644],"class_list":["post-10469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-charities","tag-charities-reap","tag-family-and-friends","tag-hotels","tag-jim-diodati","tag-locals","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-region","tag-organizers","tag-sleep-cheap","tag-sleep-cheap-charities-reap","tag-tourist-town"],"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\/10469","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=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}