{"id":1737,"date":"2007-06-25T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/25\/niagara-falls-combines-sublime-with-the-surreal\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T14:59:34","slug":"niagara-falls-combines-sublime-with-the-surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/niagara-falls-combines-sublime-with-the-surreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls combines sublime with the surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Everything Michigan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There may be nowhere on earth with as many forms of highbrow and lowbrow entertainment as the Canadian shore of the Niagara River. This is a place that’s not content to have only one casino, two indoor water parks or three haunted house attractions. Instead Niagara has multiples of everything, especially on Clifton Hill, the fun-house entertainment district that has become the Canadian Capital of Kitsch.<\/p>\n

But this place is more than just neon, laughter and screams. There’s also the world-renowned Shaw Theater Festival in Niagara on the Lake, the 100-acre Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens at Niagara Falls, the “Niagara Heritage Trail” with military forts and battlefields that figured prominently in the War of 1812, and a wine-making district that grows in prestige with each passing year.<\/p>\n

And yet, with all that activity to choose from, the place to be on a sunny June afternoon is at Table Rock, where hundreds of visitors stand along a stone and metal fence, watching a wall of water cascade over the Niagara escarpment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Everything Michigan: There may be nowhere on earth with as many forms of highbrow and lowbrow entertainment as the Canadian shore of the Niagara River. This is a place that’s not content to have only one casino, two indoor water parks or three haunted house attractions. Instead Niagara has multiples of everything, especially on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1737","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}