{"id":20081,"date":"2017-06-15T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20081"},"modified":"2017-06-15T07:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:50:18","slug":"shadow-selfies-bring-life-to-vacant-niagara-falls-storefronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/shadow-selfies-bring-life-to-vacant-niagara-falls-storefronts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shadow Selfies\u2019 bring life to vacant Niagara Falls storefronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/wivb.com\/2017\/06\/14\/shadow-selfies-bring-life-to-vacant-niagara-falls-storefronts\/\">WIVB Channel 4<\/a> in Buffalo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara University students spent Wednesday morning decorating windows of vacant buildings in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019ve been working with about 4 or 5 people all morning just taping them up, trying to better the community make it more attractive,\u201d said Jake Martineau, Niagara University student.<\/p>\n<p>Several life-size silhouettes or \u2018shadow selfies\u2019 can now be seen on vacant storefronts at the corner of Main and Third street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know overtime that a number of these have been shoe stores, restaurants, closed and shuttered since then. But the idea is hopefully it will spur people to say I\u2019m going to take a chance, I\u2019m going to invest in Niagara Falls,\u201d said Michael Beam, Niagara University Castellani Art Museum Special Projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: Niagara University students spent Wednesday morning decorating windows of vacant buildings in Niagara Falls. \u201cSo we\u2019ve been working with about 4 or 5 people all morning just taping them up, trying to better the community make it more attractive,\u201d said Jake Martineau, Niagara University student. Several life-size silhouettes or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,2],"tags":[450,12540,2713,12537,12539,3483,12541,10766,12538,1514],"class_list":["post-20081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-buffalo","tag-castellani-art-museum-special-projects","tag-channel-4","tag-jake-martineau","tag-michael-beam","tag-niagara-university","tag-selfie","tag-shadow","tag-student","tag-wivb"],"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\/20081","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=20081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20082,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081\/revisions\/20082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}