{"id":3016,"date":"2008-05-28T14:20:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2008-05-28T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:20:44","slug":"niagara-needs-a-tourism-ambassador-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/niagara-needs-a-tourism-ambassador-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara needs a tourism ambassador too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1459\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How&#8217;s Niagara Falls supposed to compete with Hello Kitty?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Japan&#8217;s tourism ministry named Hello Kitty, a cartoon character, its &#8220;tourism ambassador&#8221; to China and Hong Kong, a market Niagara has also been eager to tap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If Niagara wanted to follow Japan&#8217;s approach, there are so many colourful characters in the history of the falls who could be &#8220;cartoonified&#8221; and pressed into service as a tourism ambassador.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: How&#8217;s Niagara Falls supposed to compete with Hello Kitty? Earlier this month, Japan&#8217;s tourism ministry named Hello Kitty, a cartoon character, its &#8220;tourism ambassador&#8221; to China and Hong Kong, a market Niagara has also been eager to tap&#8230; If Niagara wanted to follow Japan&#8217;s approach, there are so many colourful&#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-3016","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\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}