{"id":3259,"date":"2008-07-16T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2008-07-16T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T12:42:25","slug":"falls-guide-ignores-us-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/falls-guide-ignores-us-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls guide ignores U.S. side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1579\">Lockport Union-Sun &amp; Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While many locals have no need for a visitor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guide to Niagara Falls, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always interesting to see what outsiders think of our beloved natural wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Vanderwilt, a self-professed frequent visitor to the region, composed his thoughts on both sides of the border in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Niagara Falls,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d part of the Tourist Town Guides series of books.<\/p>\n<p>And in giving his thoughts, his mind primarily strays to Canada. After starting the book with a brief history of the region, he gave an overview of what both sides have to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153However, the Canadian side of the falls is far superior in terms of vista, hotel accommodations, attractions and overall quality. When people visit Niagara Falls, they are almost always talking about Niagara Falls, Ontario, and not Niagara Falls, NY,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he wrote, adding in the many italicized words to further slam the point home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lockport Union-Sun &amp; Journal: While many locals have no need for a visitor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guide to Niagara Falls, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always interesting to see what outsiders think of our beloved natural wonder. Dirk Vanderwilt, a self-professed frequent visitor to the region, composed his thoughts on both sides of the border in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Niagara Falls,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d part of&#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-3259","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\/3259","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=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}