{"id":10486,"date":"2011-12-28T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10486"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:39:42","slug":"wallenda-taking-his-case-to-tourism-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/wallenda-taking-his-case-to-tourism-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda taking his case to tourism minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3398715\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Parks Commission slammed the door on Nik Wallenda Wednesday, but a day later Minister of Tourism Michael Chan opened it up just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with the Niagara Falls Review Thursday, the Ontario tourism minister invited Wallenda, a seventh-generation aerialist who wants to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, to come and speak with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My door is always open. I welcome the opportunity to meet Mr. Wallenda,&#8221; said Chan, who confirmed he had nothing to do with the NPC&#8217;s decision to reject Wallenda&#8217;s proposal. &#8220;This particular project is under the watch of many, many people. It has huge interest around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he would stand behind the NPC&#8217;s ruling, Chan seemed to leave the door open, saying there are big issues at play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the major factors is economics. These are uncertain economic times. Jobs are important, the economy is important. That&#8217;s why, my door is open to listen to people,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission slammed the door on Nik Wallenda Wednesday, but a day later Minister of Tourism Michael Chan opened it up just a bit. Speaking with the Niagara Falls Review Thursday, the Ontario tourism minister invited Wallenda, a seventh-generation aerialist who wants to walk across the Niagara Gorge&#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":[6625,6700,963,3070,3384,41,1139,452,99,5673,255,640,346,468,3994],"class_list":["post-10486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-aerialist","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-michael-chan","tag-minister-of-tourism","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-npc","tag-proposal","tag-tightrope","tag-tourism-minister","tag-wednesday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486","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=10486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}