{"id":6424,"date":"2009-04-20T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2016-03-11T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:47:31","slug":"sailing-through-rough-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/sailing-through-rough-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing through rough waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockportjournal.com\/local\/local_story_108235015.html\">Lockport Union-Sun &amp; Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year, like so many other years before it, Maid of the Mist Corp. helped mark the unofficial start of spring in Western New York and Southern Ontario by lowering its fleet of boats into the lower Niagara River on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been preparing for tourism seasons much the same way since launching its first steamboat back in 1846.<\/p>\n<p>And while some argue that\u2019s too long for any one company to have a virtual lock on one of the region\u2019s premiere tourist attractions, representatives say the Maid of the Mist\u2019s lengthy record of success and safety has earned it the right to continue to serve as the one and only operator of boat tours beneath mighty Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lockport Union-Sun &amp; Journal: This year, like so many other years before it, Maid of the Mist Corp. helped mark the unofficial start of spring in Western New York and Southern Ontario by lowering its fleet of boats into the lower Niagara River on Friday. The company has been preparing for tourism seasons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1325,88,1272,144,1096,1324,84],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-lockport-union-sun-journal","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-motm","tag-niagara-river","tag-spring","tag-steamboat","tag-tourists"],"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\/6424","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}