{"id":8355,"date":"2010-04-21T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:01:33","slug":"stranded-travellers-enjoy-the-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/stranded-travellers-enjoy-the-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded travellers enjoy the Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2540011\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As volcanic ash continues to ground aircraft across much of western Europe, travellers stranded in Canada are finding ways to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p>For Nick Haynes, he decided a visit to Niagara Falls was in order.<\/p>\n<p>Haynes, international director at BRE (Building Research Establishment) Group, and Rufus Logan, director of BRE Scotland, were in Toronto last week to attend meetings.<\/p>\n<p>They were scheduled to return to the United Kingdom Thursday, the same day a volcano erupted in Iceland, sending a massive ash cloud into the skies above Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Flights to and from European locations were grounded as debris in the ash cloud could cause jet engines to stall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t get home, so we&#8217;re doing a bit of sightseeing and (planning) to meet with some people,&#8221; Haynes said Sunday before heading out to the Maid of the Mist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: As volcanic ash continues to ground aircraft across much of western Europe, travellers stranded in Canada are finding ways to pass the time. For Nick Haynes, he decided a visit to Niagara Falls was in order. Haynes, international director at BRE (Building Research Establishment) Group, and Rufus Logan, director of&#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],"tags":[3293,3295,3290,3294,3292,88,3288,3289,3291,1656,2672,3296,2965],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-ash","tag-ash-cloud","tag-building-research-establishment-group","tag-europe","tag-iceland","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-nick-haynes","tag-rufus-logan","tag-scotland","tag-toronto","tag-united-kingdom","tag-volcanic-ash","tag-volcano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","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=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}