{"id":3242,"date":"2008-07-15T08:57:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2008-07-15T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T12:57:27","slug":"behind-the-falls-maid-of-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/behind-the-falls-maid-of-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Falls: Maid of the Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1572\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the steel boat chugs towards the 52-metre wall of rushing water, the passengers begin a steady chant of cheers.<\/p>\n<p>In unison, they pull the hoods of the blue raincoats over their heads.<\/p>\n<p>As the boat came within 75 metres of the mighty Horseshoe Falls, the raincoats didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offer much protection from the driving spray.<\/p>\n<p>With 748,000 gallons of water rushing over falls every second, remaining dry was not an option for these folks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They have a riot out there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gary English, a captain with the Maid of the Mist, as the crowd erupted in another loud cheer as the boat slowly turned sideways.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As long as they get wet, everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: There is <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1573\">a video that accompanies this article on the Review site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: As the steel boat chugs towards the 52-metre wall of rushing water, the passengers begin a steady chant of cheers. In unison, they pull the hoods of the blue raincoats over their heads. As the boat came within 75 metres of the mighty Horseshoe Falls, the raincoats didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offer much&#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-3242","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\/3242","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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}