{"id":7097,"date":"2009-08-14T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T14:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2009-08-14T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T14:25:39","slug":"the-year-the-falls-ran-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/14\/the-year-the-falls-ran-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"THE YEAR THE FALLS RAN DRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1698954\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s like that famous Bugs Bunny episode.<\/p>\n<p>Up against the American government and frustrated by a low bounty on his head, Bugs becomes a master of mischief, pulling stunts -including shutting down the American Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Funny and cute in cartoons but impossible in real life, it was thought.<\/p>\n<p>But 40 years ago, water rushing down the American channel, thundering over the precipice and crashing onto the jagged rocks below, stopped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It&#8217;s like that famous Bugs Bunny episode. Up against the American government and frustrated by a low bounty on his head, Bugs becomes a master of mischief, pulling stunts -including shutting down the American Falls. Funny and cute in cartoons but impossible in real life, it was thought. But 40&#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":[3,2],"tags":[650,1879,1880,1881,1882],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-american-falls","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-precipice","tag-turn-niagara-falls-off","tag-turn-off"],"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\/7097","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=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}