{"id":1550,"date":"2007-05-08T09:36:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T13:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/08\/maids-of-the-mist-ready-for-season\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T13:36:31","slug":"maids-of-the-mist-ready-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/maids-of-the-mist-ready-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Maids of the Mist ready for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?721\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It took about three weeks for this year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s winter ice to plummet over Niagara Falls and float away, but the river was clear enough Thursday morning for Maid of the Mist V to take its first dip of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 300-passenger boat serves the American side, and its launch into the glittering waters of the Lower Niagara River from the boat launch in Canada went off without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian and American coast guards will perform a safety review of the attraction Monday, and then the fun can begin, said Emil Bende, general manager of marine operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have so many people calling us,&#8221; Bende said. The calls start coming in February, he said, &#8220;and whether it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Hong Kong or England . . . some people will delay their vacations, holding off until we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re open.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: It took about three weeks for this year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s winter ice to plummet over Niagara Falls and float away, but the river was clear enough Thursday morning for Maid of the Mist V to take its first dip of the season. The 300-passenger boat serves the American side, and its launch into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","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\/1550","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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}