{"id":2105,"date":"2007-09-21T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/21\/loonie-soars-canadian-dollar-scales-new-heights-raising-concern-for-jobs-tourism-markets\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T12:21:57","slug":"loonie-soars-canadian-dollar-scales-new-heights-raising-concern-for-jobs-tourism-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/loonie-soars-canadian-dollar-scales-new-heights-raising-concern-for-jobs-tourism-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Loonie soars; Canadian dollar scales new heights, raising concern for jobs, tourism markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1024\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time since the 1970s, Frank Herman walked into a local gas station with American money and had to pay exchange.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked how much (gas) I could put in for US$20 and I was told I&#8221; could only get C$19 worth, he said, after filling up as the Canadian dollar crept toward parity with the American greenback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That really bothered me. I felt ripped off. I&#8217;ve never spent money on gas in the U.S. because I don&#8217;t believe in it &#8211; I believe in supporting businesses right here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: For the first time since the 1970s, Frank Herman walked into a local gas station with American money and had to pay exchange. &#8220;I asked how much (gas) I could put in for US$20 and I was told I&#8221; could only get C$19 worth, he said, after filling up as&#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_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-2105","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\/2105","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=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}