{"id":2284,"date":"2007-11-19T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/20071111-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-cartoon\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T13:26:22","slug":"20071111-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/20071111-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"20071111 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday’s (Nov 11) Ripley’s Believe It or Not! cartoon featured a connection to Niagara Falls (click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the cartoon):<\/p>\n

“American Icon”
\nAnnie and Ken Burkitt of Niagara Falls, Ontario, used over 1,000,000 Swarovski crystals to decorate a 2004 Mini Cooper with images of U.S. landmarks and symbols!<\/p>\n

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I hadn’t heard of the Burkitt’s, but Chris had. If you visit the Burkitt and Burkitt web site<\/a>, you can see some of the other things they’ve done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday’s (Nov 11) Ripley’s Believe It or Not! cartoon featured a connection to Niagara Falls (click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the cartoon): “American Icon” Annie and Ken Burkitt of Niagara Falls, Ontario, used over 1,000,000 Swarovski crystals to decorate a 2004 Mini Cooper with images of U.S. landmarks and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","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\/2284","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=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}