{"id":8803,"date":"2010-07-14T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2010-07-14T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:17:36","slug":"monopoly-snub-unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/monopoly-snub-unthinkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Monopoly snub unthinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2666792\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rich Uncle Pennybags can blow it out his top hat.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the cartoon-character mascot of the Monopoly board game. Despite his grandfatherly image \u2013 with that Wilford Brimley mustache, sophisticated walking stick and the same tuxedo he has been wearing for nearly a century &#8211; Pennybags just snubbed Niagara Falls in the most unthinkable way.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls \u2013 probably one of the most identifiable Canadian icons \u2013 was left out of the newest Canadian version of the board game. Adding insult to injury, it got passed over in favour of oh-so-popular and ever-famous Canadian locales like Sarnia, Ont., and Saint-Jean-Sur-Richilieu, Que.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Rich Uncle Pennybags can blow it out his top hat. He&#8217;s the cartoon-character mascot of the Monopoly board game. Despite his grandfatherly image \u2013 with that Wilford Brimley mustache, sophisticated walking stick and the same tuxedo he has been wearing for nearly a century &#8211; Pennybags just snubbed Niagara Falls&#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":[78,2],"tags":[2798,3986,3987,2004,3982,3980,41,652,3976,3401,3983,3978,3977,3984,3981,3985,3979],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-in-pop-culture","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-board-game","tag-canadian-locales","tag-cartoon-character","tag-monopoly","tag-monopoly-board-game","tag-mustache","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ontario","tag-pennybags","tag-quebec","tag-rich-uncle-pennybags","tag-saint-jean-sur-richilieu","tag-sarnia","tag-top-hat","tag-tuxedo","tag-walking-stick","tag-wilford-brimley"],"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\/8803","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=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}