{"id":17875,"date":"2016-07-19T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17875"},"modified":"2016-07-19T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T12:02:09","slug":"local-parks-group-feels-misled-over-zipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/local-parks-group-feels-misled-over-zipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Local parks group feels &#8216;misled&#8217; over zipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/07\/18\/local-parks-group-feels-misled-over-zipline\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After withdrawing its concerns about Niagara Parks Commission\u2019s new zipline last year, Preserve Our Parks is having \u201csecond thoughts\u201d now that it\u2019s up and running.<\/p>\n<p>Group spokesman James Bannister says members will meet July 26 to discuss concerns about the attraction, which opened to the public last Friday. Bannister says some members of Preserve Our Parks feel \u201cmisled\u201d after a meeting with parks commission members last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at it from River Road, it\u2019s not terribly esthetically pleasing,\u201d he says, referring to the tower at Grand View Marketplace where riders get strapped in for the 660-metre descent into the Niagara Gorge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tower (already) there was not a bad looking building \u2014 a structure you could climb up and look out over the falls. Then all of a sudden it gained about another storey in height, which is basically just steel and cables.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: After withdrawing its concerns about Niagara Parks Commission\u2019s new zipline last year, Preserve Our Parks is having \u201csecond thoughts\u201d now that it\u2019s up and running. Group spokesman James Bannister says members will meet July 26 to discuss concerns about the attraction, which opened to the public last Friday. Bannister says&#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":[16,29,2],"tags":[11028,10299,3086,1139,452,99,1593,563,713,10965],"class_list":["post-17875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-cables","tag-grand-view-marketplace","tag-james-bannister","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-preserve-our-parks","tag-river-road","tag-steel","tag-zipline"],"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\/17875","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=17875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17876,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875\/revisions\/17876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}