{"id":1700,"date":"2007-06-18T08:53:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T12:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/18\/tourisms-troubled-waters\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T08:53:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T12:53:57","slug":"tourisms-troubled-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/tourisms-troubled-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism&#8217;s troubled waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?793\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tucked between Screamers House of Horrors, a $12.95 prime rib special and a slew of motels with heart-shaped Jacuzzis is a near-empty parking lot where the attendants, on the first Saturday in June, are parked on lawn chairs.<\/p>\n<p>The odd vehicle cruises by on the once-gridlocked main drag.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Piccirillo, who owns four downtown parking lots that would be jam-packed with U.S. licence plates in years past, waves two 20-dollar bills in the air to show his brother how business is that sunny afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s dead around here. After my expenses, this is all the money that&#8217;s left over. It&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s hurting,&#8221; adds his brother, Charlie Piccirillo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heaven forbid if the currency ever hits par with the U.S.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Tucked between Screamers House of Horrors, a $12.95 prime rib special and a slew of motels with heart-shaped Jacuzzis is a near-empty parking lot where the attendants, on the first Saturday in June, are parked on lawn chairs. The odd vehicle cruises by on the once-gridlocked main drag. Mike Piccirillo, who&#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-1700","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\/1700","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=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}