{"id":22289,"date":"2023-11-25T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=22289"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:03:21","slug":"when-canadas-most-famous-author-visited-and-wrote-about-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/25\/when-canadas-most-famous-author-visited-and-wrote-about-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"When Canada\u2019s most famous author visited \u2013 and wrote about \u2013 Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/when-canadas-most-famous-author-visited-and-wrote-about-niagara-falls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">InSauga.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The late Pierre Burton is considered by many to be the quintessential Canadian author. The thoughtful and thought-provoking writer not only encapsulated the Canadian experience but in his erudite manner, taught many how to be Canadian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had a flair for telling Canadian history in a way that the everyman could climb aboard for the adventure. You didn\u2019t have to be a historian to enjoy it. On the contrary, his books were written so that everyone could enjoy the Canadian legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when he tackled the lure of Niagara Falls in his book, Niagara: A History of the Falls, the official launch of his new tome was at the posh city landmark Oak Hall on Sept. 9, 1992.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From InSauga.com: The late Pierre Burton is considered by many to be the quintessential Canadian author. The thoughtful and thought-provoking writer not only encapsulated the Canadian experience but in his erudite manner, taught many how to be Canadian. He had a flair for telling Canadian history in a way that the everyman could climb aboard&#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_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":[3],"tags":[9230,738,41,2861,13543],"class_list":["post-22289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-author","tag-history","tag-niagara-falls","tag-oak-hall","tag-pierre-burton"],"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\/22289","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=22289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22290,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions\/22290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}