{"id":3160,"date":"2008-07-02T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2008-07-02T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:31:50","slug":"from-sublime-icon-to-camp-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/from-sublime-icon-to-camp-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"From sublime icon to camp spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1530\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Sept. 8, 1827, a crowd estimated at more than 10,000 crammed both sides of Niagara Falls to see a hot new tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract with a cargo of live animals, advertised as ferocious panthers, wildcats and wolves. Actually, the ferocious animals turned out to be two bears, a buffalo, two foxes, a raccoon, an eagle, a dog and 15 honking geese.<\/p>\n<p>But a good time was had by all \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; except maybe for the dead animals, and the lone goose that survived the ordeal. The errant goose was recaptured below the falls, only \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; so the story goes \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; to grace the celebratory banquet of the three hoteliers (two from the Canadian side, one from the American) who, in a sterling example of cross-border economic co-operation, had cooked up this business improvement scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The plunge of the deadly ark was the first-ever daredevil stunt over the falls, inaugurating the tradition of high-wire acts and shooting the brink in barrels and tires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: On Sept. 8, 1827, a crowd estimated at more than 10,000 crammed both sides of Niagara Falls to see a hot new tourist attraction. A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract with a cargo of live animals, advertised as ferocious panthers, wildcats and wolves. Actually,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","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\/3160","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=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}