{"id":18213,"date":"2016-12-06T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18213"},"modified":"2016-12-03T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:22:39","slug":"the-man-who-turned-off-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/the-man-who-turned-off-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who turned off Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.wbfo.org\/post\/man-who-turned-niagara-falls\">WBFO.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meet the man who turned off the American Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Amos Wright is a retired US Army solider and engineer. He and his wife Gloria live in Provo, Utah, where he spends time perfecting his golf game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pleasure to get out and be able to get out,\u201d he said. \u201cI claim that I can shoot a score below my age but you have to be pretty old to be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s actually 92 years young. In the late 1960s he was with the Army Corps of Engineers in Buffalo. As the district engineer, he led a project to shut down the American side of Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WBFO.com: Meet the man who turned off the American Falls. Col. Amos Wright is a retired US Army solider and engineer. He and his wife Gloria live in Provo, Utah, where he spends time perfecting his golf game. \u201cIt\u2019s a pleasure to get out and be able to get out,\u201d he said. \u201cI claim&#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":[3,54,2],"tags":[650,11418,10762,11419,4706,41,4311,11420,815],"class_list":["post-18213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-american-falls","tag-amos-wright","tag-army-corps-of-engineers","tag-army-soldier","tag-engineer","tag-niagara-falls","tag-npr","tag-shut-down","tag-wbfo"],"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\/18213","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=18213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18214,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions\/18214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}