{"id":11335,"date":"2012-07-09T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11335"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:20:46","slug":"councillor-seeks-permanent-falls-backlighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/councillor-seeks-permanent-falls-backlighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor seeks permanent falls backlighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/article\/1384728--city-to-seeks-permanent-falls-backlighting\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nik Wallenda\u2019s walk across Niagara Falls nearly two weeks ago is still casting a glow over the city, one councillor said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>And councillor Wayne Thomson said he would like to see that glow carry over to the Horseshoe Falls itself \u2014 permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson was impressed by the backlighting of the world famous cataract the night of the seventh-generation funambulist\u2019s historic trek. The special lighting was done for television as the event was broadcast worldwide including on CTV in Canada and ABC in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current illumination has had its day. Wallenda showed what it could be,\u201d Thomson said at Tuesday\u2019s council meeting as he put forward a motion asking for the city to talk will the Falls Illumination Board about backlighting the falls on a permanent basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Nik Wallenda\u2019s walk across Niagara Falls nearly two weeks ago is still casting a glow over the city, one councillor said Tuesday. And councillor Wayne Thomson said he would like to see that glow carry over to the Horseshoe Falls itself \u2014 permanently. Thomson was impressed by the backlighting of 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":[74,26,3,2,27],"tags":[2827,7643,4806,1237,613,2176,1651,142,1440,41,451,5673,1238,845],"class_list":["post-11335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","tag-abc","tag-backlight","tag-broadcast","tag-canada","tag-city-councillor","tag-ctv","tag-funambulist","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-illumination","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-united-states","tag-wayne-thomson"],"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\/11335","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=11335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}