{"id":2629,"date":"2008-02-28T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/parks-commission-honoured-for-its-conservation-efforts\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T16:33:58","slug":"parks-commission-honoured-for-its-conservation-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/parks-commission-honoured-for-its-conservation-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks Commission honoured for its conservation efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1306\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several years ago, officials from the Japanese province of Hyogo were wrapping up a 10-year search for the best horticultural schools in the world to model a new $23-million horticultural school on.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese found their model at the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture, nestled in the stunning Botanical Gardens on the Niagara Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>To Debbie Whitehouse, executive director of parks for the parks commission, that spoke volumes about her agency&#8217;s worldwide reputation for horticultural excellence, stewardship and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the level of world renown we&#8217;re at,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It just re-emphasizes the standard that&#8217;s been set.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Several years ago, officials from the Japanese province of Hyogo were wrapping up a 10-year search for the best horticultural schools in the world to model a new $23-million horticultural school on. The Japanese found their model at the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture, nestled in the stunning Botanical Gardens&#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-2629","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\/2629","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=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}