{"id":2563,"date":"2008-02-16T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/16\/a-family-day-windfall-first-holiday-gives-a-boost-to-local-businesses\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T14:11:21","slug":"a-family-day-windfall-first-holiday-gives-a-boost-to-local-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/16\/a-family-day-windfall-first-holiday-gives-a-boost-to-local-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"A Family Day windfall; First holiday gives a boost to local businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1282\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ontario&#8217;s new Family Day was supposed to be mid-winter break for families to spend time together, but it has also turned into a &#8220;nice little boost&#8221; for Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>Hotelier Vince Kerrio said reservations coming in at his three hotels were noticeably up for this weekend compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m attributing all the business we got on Sunday to the new holiday,&#8221; Kerrio said, noting it was mostly Canadian business &#8211; a sign Ontarians are turning their three-day weekend into a road trip to Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m assuming if we&#8217;re busy, everybody&#8217;s busy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Ontario&#8217;s new Family Day was supposed to be mid-winter break for families to spend time together, but it has also turned into a &#8220;nice little boost&#8221; for Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry. Hotelier Vince Kerrio said reservations coming in at his three hotels were noticeably up for this weekend compared to last&#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-2563","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\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}