{"id":3213,"date":"2008-07-09T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2008-07-09T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T14:01:11","slug":"tourism-stuck-in-second-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/tourism-stuck-in-second-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism stuck in second gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1558\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pain at the pumps could convince some travellers to cut back on spending and rethink their travel plans. But for those taking a stroll around Table Rock Tuesday, the allure of the magnificent falls was just too much to resist.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty awesome, such a spectacular view,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Tom Morrisett, who brought his wife and kids to Niagara Falls from Richmond, Va. for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A tank of gas to come here cost me about $65 and an ice cream bar $5, among other things. But going under the falls and experiencing the (Maid of the Mist) boat ride was something else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We like it and will come back sometime.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Tourism in Niagara has been kind of like the weather so far this summer: Unpredictable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Pain at the pumps could convince some travellers to cut back on spending and rethink their travel plans. But for those taking a stroll around Table Rock Tuesday, the allure of the magnificent falls was just too much to resist. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty awesome, such a spectacular view,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Tom Morrisett,&#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-3213","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\/3213","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=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}