{"id":9015,"date":"2010-08-30T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2010-08-30T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T15:38:17","slug":"from-hennepin-to-hydro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/from-hennepin-to-hydro\/","title":{"rendered":"From Hennepin to hydro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2734569\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a> (including a video):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The area around Niagara Falls was to be preserved as &#8220;a mecca of peace&#8221; for the &#8220;millions of overworked and tired humanity&#8221; to enjoy, according to John Langmuir, the second chairman of the Niagara Parks Commission.<\/p>\n<p>A century and a quarter after it was created, the parks commission is still meeting that objective, said historian Sherman Zavitz, who quoted Langmuir&#8217;s vision during a walking tour of Queen Victoria Park Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thought about that for a while before he wrote those lines,&#8221; Zavitz said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s tour was one of the events marking this year&#8217;s 125th anniversary of the Niagara Parks Commission&#8217;s creation in 1885. Zavitz will lead a second free tour Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., leaving from the parks police station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review (including a video): The area around Niagara Falls was to be preserved as &#8220;a mecca of peace&#8221; for the &#8220;millions of overworked and tired humanity&#8221; to enjoy, according to John Langmuir, the second chairman of the Niagara Parks Commission. A century and a quarter after it was created, the parks&#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":[26,3,2],"tags":[2646,739,4334,41,99,255,1553,721,737,4335],"class_list":["post-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-anniversary","tag-historian","tag-john-langmuir","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-police-station","tag-queen-victoria-park","tag-sherman-zavitz","tag-walking-tour"],"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\/9015","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=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}