{"id":21290,"date":"2018-04-24T08:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T12:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=21290"},"modified":"2018-04-24T08:13:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T12:13:27","slug":"falls-rock-scaling-operation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/24\/falls-rock-scaling-operation-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls rock scaling operation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/8565361-falls-rock-scaling-operation-underway\/\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Visitors to Niagara Falls may have noticed a crane dangling workers over the ledge above the lower observation deck of Journey Behind the Falls on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The workers were chipping away at loose rock in a process called ice-jacking on the Canadian side of the Horseshoe Falls, 13 storeys above the falls basin.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the winter, water can creep into the crevices of the rock and through the freezing process slowly loosen pieces of rock as the frozen water expands, which then poses a danger to people standing on the observation deck below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Visitors to Niagara Falls may have noticed a crane dangling workers over the ledge above the lower observation deck of Journey Behind the Falls on Monday. The workers were chipping away at loose rock in a process called ice-jacking on the Canadian side of the Horseshoe Falls, 13 storeys above the&#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":[2,27],"tags":[13276,13280,13279,142,2929,13278,125,13277,41,6778,1378],"class_list":["post-21290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","tag-chipping","tag-crevice","tag-frozen-water","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-ice","tag-ice-jacking","tag-journey-behind-the-falls","tag-loose-rock","tag-niagara-falls","tag-process","tag-rock-scaling"],"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\/21290","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=21290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21291,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290\/revisions\/21291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}