{"id":2996,"date":"2008-05-20T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2008-05-20T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T18:53:51","slug":"niagara-cops-ready-to-battle-ny-sherrifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/niagara-cops-ready-to-battle-ny-sherrifs\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara cops ready to battle N.Y. sherrifs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This happened this past Saturday, but here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1436\">Niagara This Week article<\/a> that was describing the event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty of Niagara Regional Police Service&#8217;s finest are ready to take on their cross-border rivals in the annual International Tug-of-War Challenge on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 40 years, Niagara officers have taken on the Niagara Falls, N.Y., Police Department and the Niagara County  Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  Department  in  a  battle  of  muscle  for  the  accompanying  boasting  rights  until  next  year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  challenge.<\/p>\n<p>This year the Tug-of-War Team will be assembling in the parking lot behind Rumors on Clifton Hill at about 1p.m. before marching to the Rainbow Bridge where the event will take place at  2 p.m. sharp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen this article and so didn&#8217;t know they were going to be there. I just happened to be coming through the parking lot at that time, and saw them getting ready and then marching down Clifton Hill. Here is a picture I took with my cell phone:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2997\" title=\"20080517__bagpipes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/20080517__bagpipes.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happened this past Saturday, but here is a Niagara This Week article that was describing the event: Thirty of Niagara Regional Police Service&#8217;s finest are ready to take on their cross-border rivals in the annual International Tug-of-War Challenge on Saturday. For more than 40 years, Niagara officers have taken on the Niagara Falls, N.Y.,&#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-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}