{"id":1989,"date":"2007-08-24T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/24\/businesses-fighting-us-border-plan-with-letter-campaign\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T09:08:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T13:08:02","slug":"businesses-fighting-us-border-plan-with-letter-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/businesses-fighting-us-border-plan-with-letter-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses fighting U.S. border plan with letter campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?967\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fill up the printer ink cartridges and load up the letterhead.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce is urging its members to send a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asking it to modify the requirement that anyone entering the U.S. will need a passport by June 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The intent is to convince U.S. decision makers to reconsider the controversial Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative taking its toll on the local tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take it upon yourself, if you believe this to be an important economic matter in the future of Niagara, take this (letter) put your name on it and mail it,&#8221; said Walter Sendzik, chamber executive vice-president and general manager.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Fill up the printer ink cartridges and load up the letterhead. The St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce is urging its members to send a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asking it to modify the requirement that anyone entering the U.S. will need a passport by June 2009&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","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\/1989","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=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}