{"id":2303,"date":"2007-11-21T07:53:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T12:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/a-comedy-festival-is-born\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T07:53:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T12:53:49","slug":"a-comedy-festival-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/a-comedy-festival-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comedy Festival is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1141\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When he was a high school student at NFCVI, Rodney Pentland stood on the theatre stage and made a vow to himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember standing there thinking, &#8216;Some day I&#8217;m going to come back here and people are going to pay to see me,'&#8221; says the Niagara Falls comedian.<\/p>\n<p>The school has a new name. Pentland nearly died. But several years later, he&#8217;s right where he wanted to be this weekend: The first annual Niagara Falls Comedy Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Pentland joins a handful of comedy club regulars for the two-day event, headlined by &#8220;Corner Gas&#8221; star Brent Butt and burly funnyman John Pinette.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll turn the Niagara Centre for the Performing Arts into a barrel of laughs, starting Friday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: When he was a high school student at NFCVI, Rodney Pentland stood on the theatre stage and made a vow to himself. &#8220;I remember standing there thinking, &#8216;Some day I&#8217;m going to come back here and people are going to pay to see me,&#8217;&#8221; says the Niagara Falls comedian. The&#8230;<\/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-2303","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\/2303","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=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}