{"id":10941,"date":"2012-04-03T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10941"},"modified":"2012-04-02T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:58:11","slug":"blondin-to-get-street-name-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/blondin-to-get-street-name-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Blondin to get street name recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/article\/1328126--blondin-to-get-street-name-recognition\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls\u2019 first funambulist is getting his due.<\/p>\n<p>Immortalized in miniature crossing Victoria Avenue on a highwire, Blondin will now be recognized with his very own street after city politicians approved the naming of a small north section of Falls Avenue running between John and Bender Streets. Council unanimously endorsed the renaming at its March 27 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe avenue\u2019s proximity to the gorge makes it appropriate to name the road after Charles Blondin,\u201d a staff report from the Clerk\u2019s Department said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Niagara Falls\u2019 first funambulist is getting his due. Immortalized in miniature crossing Victoria Avenue on a highwire, Blondin will now be recognized with his very own street after city politicians approved the naming of a small north section of Falls Avenue running between John and Bender Streets. Council unanimously endorsed 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_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":[74,3,2,601],"tags":[7246,296,1649,7247,336,1651,5656,7176,41,451,4439],"class_list":["post-10941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-bender-st","tag-blondin","tag-charles-blondin","tag-city-politicians","tag-falls-avenue","tag-funambulist","tag-highwire","tag-john-st","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-staff-report"],"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\/10941","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=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}