{"id":2830,"date":"2008-04-17T11:32:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/balloon-ride-at-niagara-falls-is-grounded\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T11:32:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:32:49","slug":"balloon-ride-at-niagara-falls-is-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/balloon-ride-at-niagara-falls-is-grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon ride at Niagara Falls is grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1377\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tethered helium balloon that floated on the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skyline during the last seven summers has been grounded for good, a Buffalo lawyer confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of the Flight of Angels balloon ride have decided not to reopen this year because of nearly $750,000 in repairs and new equipment that would have been needed to get the balloon back in service, attorney Dean M. Drew told The Buffalo News.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They, of course, were sorry that it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t still working,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Drew, who has represented the attraction\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owners. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153From my perspective, it was one of the few bright spots on the U.S. side for things to do.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: A tethered helium balloon that floated on the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skyline during the last seven summers has been grounded for good, a Buffalo lawyer confirmed Tuesday. The owners of the Flight of Angels balloon ride have decided not to reopen this year because of nearly $750,000 in repairs and new equipment that&#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-2830","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\/2830","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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}