{"id":17990,"date":"2016-08-24T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17990"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T14:52:41","slug":"zavitz-descending-the-gorge-without-a-zipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/zavitz-descending-the-gorge-without-a-zipline\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAVITZ: Descending the gorge \u2014 without a zipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/08\/19\/zavitz-descending-the-gorge--without-a-zipline\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a genuine hit!<\/p>\n<p>As a new and much anticipated Niagara Falls attraction, Wildplay\u2019s MistRider Zipline, which debuted last month, has attracted a massive amount of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Four high-speed parallel lines descend 670 metres into the Niagara River Gorge from Niagara Parks\u2019 Grand View Marketplace near the foot of Clifton Hill.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t tried it yet \u2014 but I hope to.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of going down into the gorge near the falls has appealed to many people over many years. This includes some of Niagara\u2019s earliest visitors.<\/p>\n<p>One of those was Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of John Graves Simcoe, Upper Canada\u2019s (Ontario\u2019s) first lieutenant-governor. The Simcoes were living in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In her diary entry for Aug. 24, 1795, Elizabeth notes&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It\u2019s a genuine hit! As a new and much anticipated Niagara Falls attraction, Wildplay\u2019s MistRider Zipline, which debuted last month, has attracted a massive amount of interest. Four high-speed parallel lines descend 670 metres into the Niagara River Gorge from Niagara Parks\u2019 Grand View Marketplace near the foot of Clifton&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[3],"tags":[11145,59,11141,10299,11142,11144,10964,1139,242,132,1992,11143,10987,10965],"class_list":["post-17990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-11145","tag-clifton-hill","tag-elizabeth-simcoe","tag-grand-view-marketplace","tag-john-graves-simcoe","tag-lieutenant-governor","tag-mistrider","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-on-the-lake","tag-niagara-parks","tag-niagara-river-gorge","tag-upper-canada","tag-wildplay","tag-zipline"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990","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=17990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17991,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990\/revisions\/17991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}