{"id":3014,"date":"2008-05-27T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2008-05-27T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:48:23","slug":"the-falls-could-use-a-lift-reviving-tourism-at-our-wonder-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/the-falls-could-use-a-lift-reviving-tourism-at-our-wonder-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Falls could use a lift: Reviving tourism at our Wonder of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1457\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most people who would like to see Niagara Falls, N.Y., redevelop as a tourism powerhouse don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily envision the kind of carnival atmosphere of its neighboring city across the Niagara Gorge.<\/p>\n<p>There are enough tourist trappings on the Canadian side \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; with more, and bigger ones added routinely\u00e2\u20ac&#8221; to turn the stomachs of those who seek a more environmentally friendly American side.<\/p>\n<p>Too much P.T. Barnum, not enough Frederick Law Olmsted.<\/p>\n<p>But surely, even the most avid nature enthusiast yearns for something more than what the everyday tourist sees when she crosses the Rainbow Bridge and enters downtown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Most people who would like to see Niagara Falls, N.Y., redevelop as a tourism powerhouse don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily envision the kind of carnival atmosphere of its neighboring city across the Niagara Gorge. There are enough tourist trappings on the Canadian side \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; with more, and bigger ones added routinely\u00e2\u20ac&#8221; to turn the&#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-3014","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\/3014","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=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}