{"id":18342,"date":"2016-12-19T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18342"},"modified":"2016-12-16T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T18:34:34","slug":"falls-council-to-consider-600k-to-support-wfol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/falls-council-to-consider-600k-to-support-wfol\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls council to consider $600K to support WFOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/12\/13\/falls-council-to-consider-600k-to-support-wfol\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not even half way through what\u2019s looking to be another successful season, officials with the Winter Festival of Lights are already looking forward to a bigger and brighter future.<\/p>\n<p>With a 10 per cent increase in vehicle traffic and a 12 per cent spike in donations at Dufferin Islands through the first three weeks of the 2016 season, event organizers are planning to expand in 2017 \u2014 the festival\u2019s 35th anniversary \u2014 and introduce augmented reality features in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to have something bigger for our opening ceremony (in 2017),\u201d said festival executive director Tina Myers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Myers requested council approve $300,000 for each of the next two seasons to help the festival continue to grow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Not even half way through what\u2019s looking to be another successful season, officials with the Winter Festival of Lights are already looking forward to a bigger and brighter future. With a 10 per cent increase in vehicle traffic and a 12 per cent spike in donations at Dufferin Islands through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,601,503],"tags":[10473,9400,1110,2210,865,1758,1139,11531,2554,11530,46,44],"class_list":["post-18342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-10473","tag-9400","tag-city-council","tag-donations","tag-dufferin-islands","tag-executive-director","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-open-ceremony","tag-tina-myers","tag-vehicle-traffic","tag-wfol","tag-winter-festival-of-lights"],"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\/18342","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=18342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18343,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions\/18343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}