{"id":19824,"date":"2017-05-18T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19824"},"modified":"2017-05-18T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:21:43","slug":"more-funding-means-brighter-niagara-falls-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/18\/more-funding-means-brighter-niagara-falls-event\/","title":{"rendered":"More funding means brighter Niagara Falls event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/7320458-more-funding-means-brighter-niagara-falls-event\/\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Organizers of the Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Lights say extra funding from the city will allow for the festival to expand its programming for the 2017-18 event.<\/p>\n<p>On May 9, city politicians approved a request for $300,000 in additional funding so organizers could expand programming to mark a number of milestones \u2014 the festival\u2019s 35th anniversary, along with the sesquicentennial of both Ontario and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only will this funding allow us to draw more visitors to Niagara Falls but at the same time we can expand our programming which provides locals with a world-class festival right here in Niagara,\u201d said Tina Myers, executive director of the festival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Organizers of the Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Lights say extra funding from the city will allow for the festival to expand its programming for the 2017-18 event. On May 9, city politicians approved a request for $300,000 in additional funding so organizers could expand programming to mark a number&#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":[26,2,601,503],"tags":[12426,1237,1758,965,4008,6374,451,652,2194,5061,11083,2554,3346,46,44],"class_list":["post-19824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-35th-anniversary","tag-canada","tag-executive-director","tag-festival","tag-funding","tag-milestone","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-power-generation","tag-programming","tag-sesquicentennial","tag-tina-myers","tag-visitors","tag-wfol","tag-winter-festival-of-lights"],"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\/19824","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=19824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19826,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824\/revisions\/19826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}