{"id":19922,"date":"2017-06-01T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19922"},"modified":"2017-05-31T19:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T23:55:43","slug":"chewbacca-actor-roars-into-niagara-falls-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/chewbacca-actor-roars-into-niagara-falls-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewbacca actor roars into Niagara Falls Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/buffalonews.com\/2017\/05\/30\/chewbacca-actor-roars-niagara-falls-comic-con\/\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Few people could have predicted how massive the \u201cStar Wars\u201d phenomenon would become when it was released 40 years ago. It certainly boosted the profile of Peter Mayhew, the 7\u20193\u201d English actor who played the iconic Chewbacca in the space adventure series. Mayhew will be one of the featured guests at Niagara Falls Comic Con June 2-4.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent phone interview, Mayhew said he\u2019s looking forward to returning to Niagara Falls, Ont. for the three-day convention. When asked how many years has he been touring on the convention circuit, he laughed and said, \u201cToo many. It\u2019s been a long time (since I\u2019ve been in Niagara Falls). I was quite amazed the first time I went up there and saw all the water and the whole lake.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Few people could have predicted how massive the \u201cStar Wars\u201d phenomenon would become when it was released 40 years ago. It certainly boosted the profile of Peter Mayhew, the 7\u20193\u201d English actor who played the iconic Chewbacca in the space adventure series. Mayhew will be one of the featured guests at&#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],"tags":[319,11863,8859,5730,11619,3847],"class_list":["post-19922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-buffalo-news","tag-chewbacca","tag-nfcc","tag-niagara-falls-comic-con","tag-peter-mayhew","tag-star-wars"],"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\/19922","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=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19927,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions\/19927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}