{"id":10494,"date":"2011-12-28T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:42:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:42:23","slug":"new-years-concert-will-always-have-its-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/new-years-concert-will-always-have-its-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s concert will always have its critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Later this month, for the 20th time, there will be a big, free New Year’s Eve concert down at Queen Victoria Park.<\/p>\n

Also happening for the 20th time? Griping about the New Year’s Eve concert.<\/p>\n

Like Auld Lang Syne and jacked-up hotel rates, it’s a New Year’s tradition in Niagara Falls. The second the lineup is announced, the complaints begin. It doesn’t matter that the show doesn’t cost a cent, it doesn’t matter there are endless other things to do (including a rave at the convention centre this year) \u2026 the New Year’s show is our nationally televised badge of honour, and we take it serious.<\/p>\n

The problem organizers face with this show is trying to please two very different camps – the rock show crowd, and the family concert crowd. The two don’t mix well, and I’m not sure they should. Pleasing one means shortchanging the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Falls Review: Later this month, for the 20th time, there will be a big, free New Year’s Eve concert down at Queen Victoria Park. Also happening for the 20th time? Griping about the New Year’s Eve concert. Like Auld Lang Syne and jacked-up hotel rates, it’s a New Year’s tradition in Niagara…<\/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":[26,827,2],"tags":[6728,408,720,41,721,6730,6729],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-new-years-eve","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-auld-lang-syne","tag-concert","tag-new-years-eve","tag-niagara-falls","tag-queen-victoria-park","tag-rock-show","tag-tradition"],"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\/10494","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=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}