{"id":7048,"date":"2009-08-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2009-08-03T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:49:35","slug":"niagara-falls-attractions-that-wont-leave-you-over-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/niagara-falls-attractions-that-wont-leave-you-over-a-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls attractions that won&#8217;t leave you over a barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/09214\/987543-37.stm?cmpid=travel.xml\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thomas Barnett opened the first museum in Niagara Falls, a concatenation of &#8220;natural and artificial curiosities&#8221; that drew in the tourists.<\/p>\n<p>It also attracted the envy and competition of Saul Davis, a ne&#8217;er-do-well who entered into a competition that ended in gunfire, a death and Davis ultimately buying up the Barnett property.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t promise you a gunfight when you visit Clifton Hill, but the spirit of the hard-sell and the way-out and the look-at-that is a going thing in the Capital of Kitsch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Thomas Barnett opened the first museum in Niagara Falls, a concatenation of &#8220;natural and artificial curiosities&#8221; that drew in the tourists. It also attracted the envy and competition of Saul Davis, a ne&#8217;er-do-well who entered into a competition that ended in gunfire, a death and Davis ultimately buying up the Barnett&#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":[16,2],"tags":[59,1813,1814,10404,1811,1812,84],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-clifton-hill","tag-curiosities","tag-kitsch","tag-niagara-falls-attractions","tag-pittsburgh-post-gazette","tag-thomas-barnett","tag-tourists"],"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\/7048","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=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}