{"id":17154,"date":"2015-07-08T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17154"},"modified":"2015-07-02T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:58:20","slug":"bashing-tourism-a-niagara-falls-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/bashing-tourism-a-niagara-falls-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bashing tourism &#8211; a Niagara Falls tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2015\/04\/16\/law-bashing-tourism---a-niagara-falls-tradition\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look, when you\u2019ve lived here long enough, we all do it. Complain about tourism.<\/p>\n<p>We gripe when we\u2019re in a hurry and there\u2019s a car with a Pennsylvania plate ahead of us.<\/p>\n<p>We gripe when we hit a pothole on Drummond Rd. but see a War of 1812 archway over Lundy\u2019s Lane.<\/p>\n<p>We gripe that entire sections of our city seem off-limits for four or five months per year.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, we gripe when we pay for it. When our taxes go towards promoting, marketing or fixing up the tourist industry. Maybe it\u2019s because social media opens portals that weren\u2019t there 20 years ago, but I\u2019ve never seen the anger and resentment worse than it is now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Look, when you\u2019ve lived here long enough, we all do it. Complain about tourism. We gripe when we\u2019re in a hurry and there\u2019s a car with a Pennsylvania plate ahead of us. We gripe when we hit a pothole on Drummond Rd. but see a War of 1812 archway over&#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_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":[2,601,49],"tags":[10329,10328,267,1139,1906,418],"class_list":["post-17154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-complain","tag-drummond-rd","tag-lundys-lane","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-taxes","tag-tourism"],"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\/17154","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=17154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}