{"id":1237,"date":"2007-01-23T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/23\/the-man-who-lights-up-the-falls\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:55:51","slug":"the-man-who-lights-up-the-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/the-man-who-lights-up-the-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who lights up the falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?558\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pete Gordon is full of bright ideas.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 45 years, the Niagara Falls resident has been behind the helm at one of Niagara&#8217;s most popular, most-photographed attractions.<\/p>\n<p>People from around the world have marvelled at his handiwork, something he achieves nightly with a flick of the wrist. Gordon is a lights operator at the Niagara Falls Illumination building.<\/p>\n<p>He took on the role as a part-time gig in 1961 to supplement his income as a painter with the Niagara Parks Commission. He was paid $6 a night.<\/p>\n<p>More than four decades later, he&#8217;s still at it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Pete Gordon is full of bright ideas. For the past 45 years, the Niagara Falls resident has been behind the helm at one of Niagara&#8217;s most popular, most-photographed attractions. People from around the world have marvelled at his handiwork, something he achieves nightly with a flick of the wrist. Gordon&#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-1237","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\/1237","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=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}