{"id":17207,"date":"2015-07-28T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2015-07-28T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:12:14","slug":"former-niagara-falls-ont-mayor-offers-advice-to-ny-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/former-niagara-falls-ont-mayor-offers-advice-to-ny-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Niagara Falls, Ont. mayor offers advice to NY side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/story\/news\/features\/fix-the-falls\/2015\/07\/24\/former-niagara-falls-ontario-mayor-offers-advice-to-ny-side\/30643417\/\">WGRZ Channel 2<\/a> in Buffalo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wayne Thomson can remember exactly where he was when he heard the province of Ontario was considering a law to allow casino gambling at two border towns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first I was skeptical,&#8221; the former mayor and current councillor of Niagara Falls, Ont. said.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian resort city was eventually chosen to get one of those two casinos, and Thomson says that has made all the difference between the two cities along the gorge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: Wayne Thomson can remember exactly where he was when he heard the province of Ontario was considering a law to allow casino gambling at two border towns. &#8220;At first I was skeptical,&#8221; the former mayor and current councillor of Niagara Falls, Ont. said. The Canadian resort city was eventually&#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":[54,2,49],"tags":[10403,1237,354,449,353,1652,653,41,652,1238,845,448],"class_list":["post-17207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-border-towns","tag-canada","tag-casino","tag-channel-2","tag-gambling","tag-gorge","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ontario","tag-united-states","tag-wayne-thomson","tag-wgrz"],"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\/17207","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=17207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}