{"id":1551,"date":"2007-05-08T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/08\/take-a-hint-from-falls-casinos-can-crowd-nature\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T13:53:50","slug":"take-a-hint-from-falls-casinos-can-crowd-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/take-a-hint-from-falls-casinos-can-crowd-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a hint from falls: Casinos can crowd Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The falls still work. Immense volumes of water tumbling over one of nature’s best-located edges make a grand sight and sound, plus clean electric power galore. But the forces of development are great, too. And fickle. They build, transform and move on. And how much improvement occurs — well, you’re entitled to your opinion.<\/p>\n

It’s a good thing the Canadians of a century ago reserved a few acres of public park next to the falls. Or you can be sure that hotels, eateries and now gambling dens would crowd to the rim. Americans correctly saved a similar patch of green on the New York side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: The falls still work. Immense volumes of water tumbling over one of nature’s best-located edges make a grand sight and sound, plus clean electric power galore. But the forces of development are great, too. And fickle. They build, transform and move on. And how much improvement occurs — well, you’re entitled…<\/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-1551","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\/1551","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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}