{"id":17156,"date":"2015-07-08T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17156"},"modified":"2015-07-02T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:33:19","slug":"my-travel-guilty-pleasure-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/my-travel-guilty-pleasure-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"My travel guilty pleasure? Niagara Falls!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/travel\/destinations\/my-guilty-travel-pleasure-niagara-falls\/article23553360\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls, Ont., is tacky, brash and vulgar, as subtle as a punch in the nose, as un-Canadian as a drunken brawl at a PTA meeting. This is precisely why it is so magnificent.<\/p>\n<p>It is a town full of casinos, cut-price cocktails, slightly mildewed carpets, haunted houses and dubious waxworks. There is nothing organic, artisanal or locavore in its streets. I have never seen a ukulele, though I have visited many times, and I once spent an afternoon searching in vain for hummus. It is bursting at the seams with gluten. It must never change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: Niagara Falls, Ont., is tacky, brash and vulgar, as subtle as a punch in the nose, as un-Canadian as a drunken brawl at a PTA meeting. This is precisely why it is so magnificent. It is a town full of casinos, cut-price cocktails, slightly mildewed carpets, haunted houses and dubious&#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],"tags":[66,354,510,315,41,609,418,263],"class_list":["post-17156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-attractions","tag-casino","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-haunted-house","tag-niagara-falls","tag-tacky","tag-tourism","tag-waxworks"],"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\/17156","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=17156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}