{"id":2416,"date":"2008-01-07T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/1807-book-captured-essence-of-falls\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T14:28:15","slug":"1807-book-captured-essence-of-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/1807-book-captured-essence-of-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"1807 book captured essence of falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1205\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Niagara Falls surpass in sublimity every description which powers of language can afford of that celebrated scene, the most wonderful which the habitable world presents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These words were part of a lengthy description of the cataracts penned by Scottish-born George Heriot in his book, &#8220;Travels Through the Canadas,&#8221; published in 1807. Heriot was not only responsible for one of the earlier-written accounts of the falls but, as an accomplished artist, some of the earliest paintings as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: &#8220;Niagara Falls surpass in sublimity every description which powers of language can afford of that celebrated scene, the most wonderful which the habitable world presents.&#8221; These words were part of a lengthy description of the cataracts penned by Scottish-born George Heriot in his book, &#8220;Travels Through the Canadas,&#8221; published in&#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-2416","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\/2416","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=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}