{"id":152,"date":"2006-01-07T20:04:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T00:04:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-10T08:18:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T12:18:59","slug":"keeping_falls_visits_flowing_in_winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/07\/keeping_falls_visits_flowing_in_winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Falls visits flowing in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?40\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Planners on both sides of the river get serious about making Niagara Falls a year-round attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel occupancy around Niagara Falls sizzles at more than 90 percent during the summer months, but after winter arrives, you would be hard pressed to find more than a handful of tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Even the amount of water flowing over the falls is cut in half, to produce more electrical power and slow the erosion of the falls.<\/p>\n<p>But the dark days of winter &#8211; which offer one highlight: the ice bridge in the gorge &#8211; may be ending. Tourism planners on both sides of the world-famous tourist destination are getting serious about making Niagara Falls a year-round attraction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Planners on both sides of the river get serious about making Niagara Falls a year-round attraction. Hotel occupancy around Niagara Falls sizzles at more than 90 percent during the summer months, but after winter arrives, you would be hard pressed to find more than a handful of tourists. Even the amount&#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-152","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\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}