{"id":17833,"date":"2016-07-15T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17833"},"modified":"2016-07-15T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:32:07","slug":"drive-north-america-including-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/drive-north-america-including-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Drive North America&#8221; (including Niagara Falls)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I&#8217;m in second hand stores or antique shops, I&#8217;m always on the lookout for things related to Niagara Falls. Recently I came across an old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0888501129\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0888501129&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=pcimprovements&amp;linkId=1ccf1d099f654d3ef1e8aa05f4526b1b\">Drive North America<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=pcimprovements&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0888501129\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0book. The book is from 1983 by Readers Digest. There was a small blurb about Niagara Falls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Museums, parks and historical sites in the Niagara region attract millions of visitors each year &#8211; but such works of man are dwarfed by Niagara Falls. The 54-metre-high Horseshoe Falls and the 56-metre-high American Falls have inspired centuries of wonder, and such death-defying theatrics as Blondin&#8217;s 1859 tightrope crossing. The Maid of the Mist cruises to the foot of Horseshoe Falls, and an aero car glides 37 metres above the whirlpools of Niagara Gorge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17834\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/drive-north-america-including-niagara-falls\/1983_drive_north_american_book_20160707_121547\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1983_drive_north_american_book_20160707_121547.jpg?fit=1024%2C768\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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There was a small blurb about Niagara Falls: Museums, parks and historical sites in the Niagara region attract millions&#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":[31,3],"tags":[11016,11017,650,11014,142,88,41,452,11015],"class_list":["post-17833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-books","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-11016","tag-aero-car","tag-american-falls","tag-drive-north-america","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-readers-digest"],"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\/17833","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=17833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17837,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions\/17837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}