{"id":19492,"date":"2017-04-20T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19492"},"modified":"2017-04-20T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:57:11","slug":"niagara-falls-prepares-for-canadas-150th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/20\/niagara-falls-prepares-for-canadas-150th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls prepares for Canada\u2019s 150th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chch.com\/niagara-falls\/\">CHCH TV<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To mark Canada\u2019s 150 birthday on July 1st, the city of Niagara Falls will host 150 different events throughout the year. The city expects this year\u2019s tourism season to be one of their best, but the challenge is to keep visitors here longer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll signs including international visitation show that this year 2017 should be the best year maybe in 25 years.\u201d Jim Diodati, Niagara Falls mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Niagara Falls will spend $150 000 promoting and hosting events throughout the year celebrating 150 years since confederation. Including music festivals and exhibitions. Clifton Hill has been updated, featuring a new Ripley\u2019s Believe it or Not museum. A go-kart attraction is under construction with a possible start date later this year. And Mayor Jim Diodati says the city has added more fireworks to the falls. Instead of 3 nights tourists can enjoy fireworks 5 days out of the week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--Ads1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CHCH TV: To mark Canada\u2019s 150 birthday on July 1st, the city of Niagara Falls will host 150 different events throughout the year. The city expects this year\u2019s tourism season to be one of their best, but the challenge is to keep visitors here longer.<\/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":[26,2],"tags":[11775,8864,59,73,6003,603,3317,41,708],"class_list":["post-19492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-canada-150","tag-chch","tag-clifton-hill","tag-fireworks","tag-go-kart","tag-jim-diodati","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ripleys-believe-it-or-not"],"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\/19492","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=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19493,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions\/19493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}