{"id":10730,"date":"2012-02-14T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2012-02-13T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:00:22","slug":"how-niagara-falls-earned-the-title-of-honeymoon-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/how-niagara-falls-earned-the-title-of-honeymoon-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"How Niagara Falls earned the title of Honeymoon Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3468342\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Valentine\u2019s Day fast approaching, it\u2019s an appropriate time to recall Niagara Falls\u2019 lengthy and prominent role in the world of love and romance \u2014 a role especially renowned due to the city\u2019s fame as a honeymoon destination.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of newlyweds coming to Niagara began, it appears, in the late 1830s. One piece of evidence to support this dating is a popular song of 1841.<\/p>\n<p>The first verse goes like this:<\/p>\n<p>Oh the lovers come a thousand miles,<\/p>\n<p>They leave their home and mother;<\/p>\n<p>Yet when they reach Niagara Falls,<\/p>\n<p>They only see each other.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1880s a honeymoon at Niagara Falls was a firmly established custom that continued to grow, reaching a peak in popularity between the 1920s and the 1950s. For many, Niagara Falls is still the Honeymoon Capital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: With Valentine\u2019s Day fast approaching, it\u2019s an appropriate time to recall Niagara Falls\u2019 lengthy and prominent role in the world of love and romance \u2014 a role especially renowned due to the city\u2019s fame as a honeymoon destination. The tradition of newlyweds coming to Niagara began, it appears, in the&#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_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":[6976,6951,6977,6978,6979,481,6011,395,202,41,394,6729,959],"class_list":["post-10730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-1830s","tag-1880s","tag-1920s","tag-1950s","tag-dating","tag-honeymoon-capital","tag-honeymoon-destination","tag-love","tag-newlyweds","tag-niagara-falls","tag-romance","tag-tradition","tag-valentines-day"],"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\/10730","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=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}