{"id":1207,"date":"2007-01-09T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/09\/rainbows-at-the-niagara-falls\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T13:23:48","slug":"rainbows-at-the-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/rainbows-at-the-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbows at the Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?549\">Deccan Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a wet windy afternoon we stood on the deck, unsteadily in blue disposable plastic parkas, and feeling a strange mix of chill, thrill and elation. Ahead in the distance was the mighty Niagara Falls: nature\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s master piece imprinted into the landscape by forces of sun, wind, ice and water &#8211; a production 50,000 years in the making.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153The Maid of the Mist\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 lifted and dropped as we moved on the turbulent water. Around us swarms of seagulls wheeled over the double-decker boat, making squeaky high-pitched sounds. Japanese tourists around us shrieked and laughed. Children delightfully screamed each time waves of water hit us. As we neared the Falls, the mighty roar drowned all sounds. A weird and wonderful exhilaration swept the air.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Deccan Herald: On a wet windy afternoon we stood on the deck, unsteadily in blue disposable plastic parkas, and feeling a strange mix of chill, thrill and elation. Ahead in the distance was the mighty Niagara Falls: nature\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s master piece imprinted into the landscape by forces of sun, wind, ice and water &#8211;&#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-1207","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\/1207","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=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}