{"id":3020,"date":"2008-05-29T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2008-05-29T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T13:06:26","slug":"i-may-not-have-done-this-if-somebody-had-told-me-how-tough-this-would-be-to-sell-to-the-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/i-may-not-have-done-this-if-somebody-had-told-me-how-tough-this-would-be-to-sell-to-the-locals\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I may not have done this if somebody had told me how tough this would be to sell to the locals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1461\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was supposed to be a five-year plan to prove the doubters wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Five years to show that big-time theatre couldn&#8217;t just survive in Niagara Falls, but thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Silver Mist Productions was off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>It only took two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re three years ahead of schedule,&#8221; says a satisfied Linus Hand as he sits down for lunch at a local eatery.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s co-founder has earned a smile or two by now, after the pessimistic jeering that greeted his company.<\/p>\n<p>Not from the tourism industry, he clarifies. From the locals. People who greet every promise in this city with a shrug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It was supposed to be a five-year plan to prove the doubters wrong. Five years to show that big-time theatre couldn&#8217;t just survive in Niagara Falls, but thrive. Alas, Silver Mist Productions was off the mark. It only took two years. &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re three years ahead of schedule,&#8221; says&#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-3020","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\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}