{"id":7436,"date":"2009-10-20T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2009-10-17T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T14:34:53","slug":"see-niagara-falls-like-a-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/see-niagara-falls-like-a-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"See Niagara Falls like a Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/travel\/international\/2970685\/See-Niagra-Falls-like-a-Canadian\">Fairfax New Zealand Sun-Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;d expect a country whose exports include comedians Jim Carrey, Mike &#8220;Austin Powers&#8221; Myers and Leslie Nielsen (of Flying High and Naked Gun fame) to have a unique take on a world-famous tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Canada actually goes beyond the call of duty to exceed those expectations. Ever since 63-year-old American schoolteacher Annie Taylor became the first person to ride a barrel over Niagara Falls in October 1901 \u2013 accompanied by an anvil (for ballast) and her cat (for company?) \u2013 this natural wonder has had an offbeat side. You don&#8217;t even have to step off the tourist-beaten path to find unusual offerings in Ontario&#8217;s Niagara region \u2013 most of them are right there in the brochure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Fairfax New Zealand Sun-Herald: You&#8217;d expect a country whose exports include comedians Jim Carrey, Mike &#8220;Austin Powers&#8221; Myers and Leslie Nielsen (of Flying High and Naked Gun fame) to have a unique take on a world-famous tourist attraction. Canada actually goes beyond the call of duty to exceed those expectations. Ever since 63-year-old&#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":[74,2],"tags":[921,443,2284,2280,2279,2281,2278,2282,2283],"class_list":["post-7436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-annie-taylor","tag-brochure","tag-fairfax","tag-jim-carrey","tag-leslie-nielsen","tag-mike-myers","tag-naked-gun","tag-new-zealand","tag-sun-herald"],"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\/7436","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=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}