{"id":6863,"date":"2009-07-03T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2009-07-02T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T18:41:52","slug":"council-must-mind-its-own-glass-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/council-must-mind-its-own-glass-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Council must mind its own glass house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1632635\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They&#8217;ve got a lot of nerve on city council to criticize the Niagara Parks Commission over the appearance of Queen Victoria Park, when the city pumps raw sewage into the Niagara River.<\/p>\n<p>City councillors like to dole out the free advice, but they&#8217;re in a big glass house when it comes to telling any other government agency how to run things better.<\/p>\n<p>At Monday&#8217;s meeting, council is giving a soapbox to Preserve Our Parks, a watchdog group that keeps tabs on the parks commission&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It probably wouldn&#8217;t take much effort to drive around Niagara Falls and see a bunch of similar damage at city-owned buildings, pothole-covered roads or long grass at parks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: They&#8217;ve got a lot of nerve on city council to criticize the Niagara Parks Commission over the appearance of Queen Victoria Park, when the city pumps raw sewage into the Niagara River. City councillors like to dole out the free advice, but they&#8217;re in a big glass house when it&#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_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],"tags":[1110,1662,99,255,1661,1593,721],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-city-council","tag-grass","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-pothole","tag-preserve-our-parks","tag-queen-victoria-park"],"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\/6863","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=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}