{"id":7306,"date":"2009-09-19T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2009-09-19T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:29:20","slug":"rink-at-the-brink-gets-the-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/19\/rink-at-the-brink-gets-the-thumbs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rink at the Brink&#8217; gets the thumbs up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1760463\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Outdoor skating is on its way to Table Rock.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Parks Commission has approved a plan by the Winter Festival of Lights for the &#8216;Rink at the Brink,&#8217; putting a 20- by-40-metre sheet of ice next to the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Festival of Lights manager Dino Fazio envisions a family attraction similar to the world-famous rink at New York City&#8217;s Rockefeller Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been quite a challenge for us this year with this project,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The timelines have been tight since Day 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Planning began in February, and Fazio says the &#8220;logistics&#8221; were overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>But once it&#8217;s up and running in November, he expects it to become an &#8220;iconic&#8221; winter attraction for the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Outdoor skating is on its way to Table Rock. The Niagara Parks Commission has approved a plan by the Winter Festival of Lights for the &#8216;Rink at the Brink,&#8217; putting a 20- by-40-metre sheet of ice next to the Horseshoe Falls. Festival of Lights manager Dino Fazio envisions a family&#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":[26,2,503],"tags":[671,47,142,1946,99,2114,1944,1503,374,44],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-dino-fazio","tag-festival-of-lights","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-new-york-city","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-rink-at-the-brink","tag-rockefeller-center","tag-skating","tag-table-rock","tag-winter-festival-of-lights"],"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\/7306","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=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}