{"id":1681,"date":"2007-06-12T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/12\/niagara-falls-how-far-can-we-stretch-50\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:35:08","slug":"niagara-falls-how-far-can-we-stretch-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/12\/niagara-falls-how-far-can-we-stretch-50\/","title":{"rendered":"NIAGARA FALLS: How far can we stretch $50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?776\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;So what, exactly, are you going to do in Niagara Falls?\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It was a fair question, considering I had just told a customs officer that I had \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;no idea\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d and added, nervously, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;Well, whatever I can spend about $50 on.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d And unlike the many newly-arrived tourists and locals with the same dilemma that afternoon, I was sticking to my story.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re a watercolor artist or possessed of a deeply calm demeanor, a few minutes of stunned gazing at those aquatic anomalies (and a few healthy coatings of mist) quickly summons up the urge to try a simpler, maybe guiltier pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s where Night and Day is stepping in.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, this publication tries its best to highlight worthwhile arts and entertainment on the U.S. side of the border, but the release of a new Border Hopper guide left its publisher feeling a bit generous.<\/p>\n<p>So, with an 80-degree afternoon on the horizon, a $50 spending limit and a demand to find something interesting to write about, this reporter was dispatched across the border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;So what, exactly, are you going to do in Niagara Falls?\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d It was a fair question, considering I had just told a customs officer that I had \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;no idea\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d and added, nervously, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;Well, whatever I can spend about $50 on.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d And unlike the many newly-arrived tourists and locals with the same&#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-1681","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\/1681","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=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}