{"id":20608,"date":"2017-08-08T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20608"},"modified":"2017-08-07T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:58:35","slug":"experiencing-natural-wonder-and-quintessential-kitsch-in-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/experiencing-natural-wonder-and-quintessential-kitsch-in-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing natural wonder and quintessential kitsch in Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/travel\/2017\/08\/04\/experiencing-natural-wonder-and-quintessential-kitsch-in-niagara-falls.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I tried to do it all \u2014 the mazes and minigolf and midway and magic. I rode on a zip line, a ferris wheel, a cable car and a helicopter. I lunched at a rotating restaurant, looking down at tumbling tumultuous water, then out at the distant towers of downtown Toronto. I pet a parrot. I played \u201cHercules,\u201d the world\u2019s largest pinball machine. I stared into the waxy eyes of Hollywood heroes and my own long face in funhouse mirrors. I lost five dollars to a one-cent slot machine called \u201cTreasure Tempest.\u201d I even ate a beavertail. I saw illuminations and fireworks. I got soaked on the Hornblower, and I soaked in my retro hotel room\u2019s heart-shaped Jacuzzi. For a very fleeting moment, I was actually spooked in a haunted house. Then, on a hike deep in the Niagara Gorge, I felt awe.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Niagara Falls, Ont. \u2014 the most Instagrammed place in Canada, home of the most voluminous waterfall in North America and (still unofficially) the Honeymoon Capital of the World.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: I tried to do it all \u2014 the mazes and minigolf and midway and magic. I rode on a zip line, a ferris wheel, a cable car and a helicopter. I lunched at a rotating restaurant, looking down at tumbling tumultuous water, then out at the distant towers of downtown Toronto&#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":[2,39,52],"tags":[4547,288,423,7710,870,1309,1911,12852,41,652,960],"class_list":["post-20608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-travel","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-cable-car","tag-ferris-wheel","tag-helicopter","tag-instagram","tag-magic","tag-maze","tag-midway","tag-minigolf","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ontario","tag-toronto-star"],"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\/20608","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=20608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20609,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions\/20609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}