{"id":8665,"date":"2010-06-18T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2010-06-18T08:24:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:24:50","slug":"motorcycle-rally-start-of-a-new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/motorcycle-rally-start-of-a-new-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle rally start of a new tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2628226\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Kazdan is going to get his motor running and head out on the parkway this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto motorcycle enthusiast is coming to Niagara Falls for a rally organizers say they hope will be the start of something big for a tourism area more often associated with honeymoons than with Harley-Davidsons and Hondas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a lot of rallies in Ontario. Everybody goes to the States for rallies,&#8221; said Kazdan, a 52-year-old biker who works for a Toronto lighting company.<\/p>\n<p>When he saw a website where organizers suggested 50,000 bikers could descend on the city for &#8220;Canada&#8217;s largest rally ever,&#8221; he decided to make a weekend out of it, eager to get in on the ground floor of what could become a new tradition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Michael Kazdan is going to get his motor running and head out on the parkway this weekend. The Toronto motorcycle enthusiast is coming to Niagara Falls for a rally organizers say they hope will be the start of something big for a tourism area more often associated with honeymoons than&#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],"tags":[3810,3717,3805,3812,3653,3804,3808,3807,41,3811,3806,3809],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-biker","tag-bikers","tag-harley-davidsons","tag-hondas","tag-honeymoons","tag-michael-kazdan","tag-motorcycle-enthusiast","tag-motorcycle-rally","tag-niagara-falls","tag-rallies","tag-rally-organizers","tag-tourism-area"],"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\/8665","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=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}