{"id":16647,"date":"2014-02-13T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16647"},"modified":"2014-02-13T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:25:50","slug":"niagara-falls-is-lovely-in-the-off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/13\/niagara-falls-is-lovely-in-the-off-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls is lovely in the off-season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/travel\/Niagara+Falls+lovely+season\/9489661\/story.html\">Canada.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We were looking for a winter trip that would feel like a touristy getaway without having to fly. We had visited Niagara Falls in the summer five years ago and enjoyed its quirky allure, a fun-spirited mix combining nature\u2019s grandeur, blocks of tourism kitsch and legions of lovestruck couples and happy families from the world over.<\/p>\n<p>We heard it was especially beautiful in winter, with the falls\u2019 mist blanketing all in a sheath of icy whiteness, and a less-crowded time at a spot that draws close to 25 million visitors a year. Only 90 minutes from Toronto, we decided to try it out again with our boys, age 8 and 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Canada.com: We were looking for a winter trip that would feel like a touristy getaway without having to fly. We had visited Niagara Falls in the summer five years ago and enjoyed its quirky allure, a fun-spirited mix combining nature\u2019s grandeur, blocks of tourism kitsch and legions of lovestruck couples and happy families from&#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":[2,27,52],"tags":[9615,9616,41,1699,167,9614],"class_list":["post-16647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-canada-com","tag-nature","tag-niagara-falls","tag-tourist","tag-winter","tag-winter-trip"],"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\/16647","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=16647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}