{"id":225,"date":"2006-05-19T07:59:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"niagara_scores_passport_victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/niagara_scores_passport_victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara scores passport victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?230\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. Senate vote to delay the so-called passport requirement many fear will hurt tourism is a victory for Niagara because it buys some time, says Mayor Ted Salci.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re excited. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what we want,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Salci said Thursday, reacting to the news.<\/p>\n<p>American Senators voted Wednesday to change the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s implementation date to June 1, 2009. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the new rule that will require everyone including Americans entering the U.S. at a land border to show a passport or some other new document that indicates the holders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 identity and citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The security measure, which had been recommended by the 9\/11 commission, was to come into effect Jan. 1, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hopefully, this will give them some breathing room to look at proper implementation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Salci. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We thought it was very much done in haste.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A U.S. Senate vote to delay the so-called passport requirement many fear will hurt tourism is a victory for Niagara because it buys some time, says Mayor Ted Salci. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re excited. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what we want,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Salci said Thursday, reacting to the news. American Senators voted Wednesday to change the&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-225","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\/225","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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}