{"id":1159,"date":"2006-12-06T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/06\/casino-niagara-turns-10\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T15:54:33","slug":"casino-niagara-turns-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/casino-niagara-turns-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino Niagara Turns 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?523\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two Superman movies &#8211; 25 years apart &#8211; are good reminders of how much Casino Niagara has transformed Niagara Falls, casino spokesman Greg Medulun says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Superman II movie was filmed here in the early &#8217;80s. The movie showed a pink bearskin rug in a honeymoon suite. That was the image of the Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year, Fallsview hosted the Canadian premiere of Superman Returns in a billion-dollar casino resort, surrounded by new hotel developments,&#8221; said Medulun, corporate communications manager for Niagara&#8217;s casinos, in an interview looking back at the casino&#8217;s first 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>That cheesy &#8217;80s image changed in no small part due to the arrival of casino gambling and the kickstart it gave the economy.<\/p>\n<p>As Casino Niagara prepares to mark its 10th anniversary this weekend, this is a time to take stock of what it has meant to Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Two Superman movies &#8211; 25 years apart &#8211; are good reminders of how much Casino Niagara has transformed Niagara Falls, casino spokesman Greg Medulun says. &#8220;The Superman II movie was filmed here in the early &#8217;80s. The movie showed a pink bearskin rug in a honeymoon suite. That was the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1159","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}