{"id":16581,"date":"2014-01-16T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16581"},"modified":"2014-01-16T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:56:02","slug":"hello-street-of-fun-its-been-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/hello-street-of-fun-its-been-awhile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello &#8216;Street of Fun,&#8217; it&#8217;s been awhile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2014\/01\/12\/hello-street-of-fun-its-been-awhile\">St Catharines Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most times, Bob and Kevin meet up at a bar. Over a beer with a hockey game on. But there they were Sunday, fist-bumping next to a Statue of Liberty made out of toothpicks.<\/p>\n<p>For one day a year it\u2019s the place where locals meet. The one place they avoid all year: Clifton Hill.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few tourists, sure. But once a year every January, the Street of Fun is packed with thousands of Niagara Falls residents flashing their ID and getting into museums, attractions and funhouses for just $1, with all funds going to cystic fibrosis research.<\/p>\n<p>With kids in tow, it was their chance to play tourist. And virtually every conversation was the same: They rarely ever come here, but couldn\u2019t resist the cheap admission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St Catharines Standard: Most times, Bob and Kevin meet up at a bar. Over a beer with a hockey game on. But there they were Sunday, fist-bumping next to a Statue of Liberty made out of toothpicks. For one day a year it\u2019s the place where locals meet. The one place they avoid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,26,2],"tags":[9507,2781,1724,59,891,41,3628,1437,7952],"class_list":["post-16581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-9507","tag-admission","tag-cheap","tag-clifton-hill","tag-cystic-fibrosis","tag-niagara-falls","tag-residents","tag-st-catharines-standard","tag-street-of-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}