{"id":10699,"date":"2012-02-06T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10699"},"modified":"2012-02-04T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:15:20","slug":"niagara-falls-ice-bridge-tragedy-100-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/niagara-falls-ice-bridge-tragedy-100-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls ice bridge tragedy \u2014 100 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3459960\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most dramatic and tragic events in the history of Niagara Falls took place 100 years ago Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 4, 1912, a Sunday, was a clear, windy and very cold day in Niagara Falls. Nevertheless, hundreds of people \u2014 both residents and tourists \u2014 were on hand that morning to view the gorgeous winter scenery around the falls and to take a walk on the ice bridge.<\/p>\n<p>One of Niagara\u2019s most spectacular winter creations, the ice bridge is essentially a suspended glacier, often of great thickness, that stretches across the gorge just below the Falls. Beginning in the 1880s, it became a popular winter playground. Local businessmen even set up concession shanties out on the ice where one could buy drinks, including whisky, hot dogs, souvenirs and get a tintype picture taken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: One of the most dramatic and tragic events in the history of Niagara Falls took place 100 years ago Saturday. Feb. 4, 1912, a Sunday, was a clear, windy and very cold day in Niagara Falls. Nevertheless, hundreds of people \u2014 both residents and tourists \u2014 were on hand that&#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":[6951,6952,6949,1008,41,6950,753,84,6948,6947],"class_list":["post-10699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-1880s","tag-glacier","tag-hot-dogs","tag-ice-bridge","tag-niagara-falls","tag-shanties","tag-souvenirs","tag-tourists","tag-winter-playground","tag-winter-scenery"],"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\/10699","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=10699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10700,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions\/10700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}