{"id":22080,"date":"2022-09-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2022-09-24T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:02:20","slug":"a-brief-and-somewhat-inaccurate-history-of-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/26\/a-brief-and-somewhat-inaccurate-history-of-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief and somewhat inaccurate history of Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/opinion-story\/10711623-a-brief-and-somewhat-inaccurate-history-of-niagara-falls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>No matter where I travel in this world, whenever I say I\u2019m from Canada, the reaction is almost always \u201cAh Canada \u2026 Niagara Falls.\u201d Over 25-million tourists come every year to this historic eighth wonder of the world in order to watch water fall over a cliff.<\/p><p>Although it\u2019s now Canada\u2019s greatest tourist attraction with two casinos and a convention centre, Niagara Falls once served as the key battleground for the War of 1812. Here then is a brief history of Niagara Falls as told by, OK, me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: No matter where I travel in this world, whenever I say I\u2019m from Canada, the reaction is almost always \u201cAh Canada \u2026 Niagara Falls.\u201d Over 25-million tourists come every year to this historic eighth wonder of the world in order to watch water fall over a cliff. Although it\u2019s now Canada\u2019s&#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":[3],"tags":[354,69,738,41,1989,1760],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-casino","tag-convention-centre","tag-history","tag-niagara-falls","tag-tourist-attraction","tag-war-of-1812"],"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\/22080","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=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22081,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions\/22081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}