{"id":191,"date":"2006-04-11T21:50:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T01:50:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-03T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T14:34:21","slug":"passport_law_clouds_future_as_maid_of_mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/11\/passport_law_clouds_future_as_maid_of_mi\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport law clouds future as Maid of Mist is launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?149\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first Maid of the Mist tour boat of the season was launched on a test run Wednesday under a cloudy sky and even cloudier concerns over the new U.S. law requiring passports to enter the country from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The 83-ton Maid of the Mist V &#8220;tested the waters&#8221; for the 2006 tourist season, which officially opens next Wednesday, 10 days earlier than last year.<\/p>\n<p>All four boats will begin operating, catering to the first of an expected 2.5 million passengers through the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>With the mild winter allowing an early start to the season, tourism officials expect a good year for the 160-year-old attraction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beyond 2006, however, we have serious concerns,&#8221; said Christopher M. Glynn, president of the Maid of the Mist Corp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: The first Maid of the Mist tour boat of the season was launched on a test run Wednesday under a cloudy sky and even cloudier concerns over the new U.S. law requiring passports to enter the country from Canada. The 83-ton Maid of the Mist V &#8220;tested the waters&#8221; for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/191","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}