{"id":6949,"date":"2009-07-16T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2009-07-16T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:59:12","slug":"americans-staying-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/americans-staying-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans staying home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1659016\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trips arranged by Lezlie Harper Wells are a hit with U.S. African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2004, she\u2019s helped co-ordinate 600 American group sojourns to explore Niagara\u2019s rich black history and its Underground Railroad that helped free U.S. slaves.<\/p>\n<p>However, new passport rules at the U.S. border and a sick economy has meant 30 per cent less U.S. business compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of a general slump in American tourism to this area that many in the industry are noticing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The trips arranged by Lezlie Harper Wells are a hit with U.S. African Americans. Since 2004, she\u2019s helped co-ordinate 600 American group sojourns to explore Niagara\u2019s rich black history and its Underground Railroad that helped free U.S. slaves. However, new passport rules at the U.S. border and a sick economy&#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":[2,49],"tags":[1745,211,887,477],"class_list":["post-6949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-american-tourism","tag-border","tag-passport","tag-underground-railroad"],"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\/6949","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=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6950,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}