{"id":6779,"date":"2009-06-19T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2009-06-18T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:34:05","slug":"what-theyre-saying-writer-defends-u-s-side-of-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/19\/what-theyre-saying-writer-defends-u-s-side-of-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT THEY&#8217;RE SAYING: Writer defends U.S. side of falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal-register.com\/features\/gnnlifestyle_story_162105755.html?keyword=topstory\">The Journal-Register<\/a> (in Medina, NY):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Pennsylvania writer took pains in a recent travel story to defend the American side of Niagara Falls, widely considered inferior to its Canadian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Markowitz of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in a story discussing the Cataract City, said that even with increased international border security, there is no need for Pennsylvanians to obtain passports to have fun in the Niagara Frontier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American side of the falls is unexpectedly better in some ways than the more celebrated Canadian (side),\u201d he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Journal-Register (in Medina, NY): A Pennsylvania writer took pains in a recent travel story to defend the American side of Niagara Falls, widely considered inferior to its Canadian counterpart. Jack Markowitz of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in a story discussing the Cataract City, said that even with increased international border security, there is no&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,52],"tags":[211,1534,1603,1601,1605,1606,1604,887,694,1602],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-border","tag-border-security","tag-cataract-city","tag-jack-markowitz","tag-journal-register","tag-medina","tag-niagara-frontier","tag-passport","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-tribune-review"],"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\/6779","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=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}