{"id":17347,"date":"2016-03-09T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17347"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:11:35","slug":"falls-continues-to-move-the-ball-forward-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/09\/falls-continues-to-move-the-ball-forward-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls continues to &#8216;move the ball forward&#8217;: Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/03\/03\/falls-continues-to-move-the-ball-forward-mayor\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls continues to \u201cmove the ball forward\u201d when it comes to growing the local economy and providing more opportunities for its residents and visitors, says Mayor Jim Diodati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur roots are firmly planted in the fundamentals of this city and making progress on our initiatives,\u201d Diodati told a sold-out crowd at his State of the City address on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must always anticipate people throwing dirt on our ideas, but this dirt is actually essential for growth and for development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust watch us grow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls continues to \u201cmove the ball forward\u201d when it comes to growing the local economy and providing more opportunities for its residents and visitors, says Mayor Jim Diodati. \u201cOur roots are firmly planted in the fundamentals of this city and making progress on our initiatives,\u201d Diodati told a sold-out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,601],"tags":[963,603,3317,41,1139,652,7227],"class_list":["post-17347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-economy","tag-jim-diodati","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-ontario","tag-state-of-the-city"],"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\/17347","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=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}