{"id":17149,"date":"2015-07-10T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17149"},"modified":"2015-07-04T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T18:27:34","slug":"shining-the-light-on-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/10\/shining-the-light-on-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining the light on Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2015\/05\/04\/shining-the-light-on-niagara\">St Catharines Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For 54 years, Peter Gordon played to an audience of millions.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Falls resident estimates thousands of people a night &#8211; between 90,000 to 150,000 on a summer night &#8211; have been entertained by his rainbow of lights on both the Horseshoe and American Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It made you feel kind of powerful some days to see all those people out there and they&#8217;re looking at my work,&#8221; the 83-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>On April 30, Gordon spent his last shift as a lights operator at the Niagara Falls Illumination building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was time to go,&#8221; he said with a smile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St Catharines Standard: For 54 years, Peter Gordon played to an audience of millions. The Niagara Falls resident estimates thousands of people a night &#8211; between 90,000 to 150,000 on a summer night &#8211; have been entertained by his rainbow of lights on both the Horseshoe and American Falls. &#8220;It made you feel&#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":[3,2,27],"tags":[650,142,2003,41,7230,10319,10318,1437],"class_list":["post-17149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","tag-american-falls","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-lights","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-illumination","tag-operator","tag-peter-gordon","tag-st-catharines-standard"],"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\/17149","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=17149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}