{"id":20301,"date":"2017-07-04T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20301"},"modified":"2017-07-03T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T19:54:06","slug":"80k-people-celebrate-canada-in-tourism-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/04\/80k-people-celebrate-canada-in-tourism-district\/","title":{"rendered":"80K people celebrate Canada in tourism district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/07\/03\/80k-people-celebrate-canada-in-tourism-district\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 80,000 people packed the heart of the tourism area of Niagara Falls on Canada Day, the largest gathering of people in the city since an estimated 100,000 watched Nik Wallenda\u2019s historic wirewalk over the Horseshoe Falls in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tremendous,\u201d said Niagara Parks Commission chairwoman Janice Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the number that our Niagara Parks Police recorded in the immediate area of the falls, and around Murray Hill, Clifton Hill, on the (Niagara) Parkway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomson said she believes the crowd reflects the \u201cfact that we\u2019ve been enjoying an uptick in tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen more visitors in general, and now for this to be a very special holiday, coupled with the American 4th of July holiday, we just saw an amazing amount of visitors.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: About 80,000 people packed the heart of the tourism area of Niagara Falls on Canada Day, the largest gathering of people in the city since an estimated 100,000 watched Nik Wallenda\u2019s historic wirewalk over the Horseshoe Falls in 2012. \u201cIt was tremendous,\u201d said Niagara Parks Commission chairwoman Janice Thomson. \u201cThat&#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":[1711,11775,1664,59,142,3827,380,1139,99,1791,297,5673,3346],"class_list":["post-20301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-4th-of-july","tag-canada-150","tag-canada-day","tag-clifton-hill","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-janice-thomson","tag-murray-hill","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-parks-police","tag-niagara-parkway","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-visitors"],"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\/20301","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=20301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20302,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301\/revisions\/20302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}