{"id":9221,"date":"2010-10-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2010-10-28T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:56:41","slug":"ripleys-owner-still-believes-in-the-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/ripleys-owner-still-believes-in-the-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripley&#8217;s owner still believes in the Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2819642\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what does the billionaire owner of Ripley Entertainment Inc. do when he&#8217;s in Niagara Falls?<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, Jim Pattison Jr. is just a regular tourist. He&#8217;ll visit Marineland, hit a winery, maybe check out the museums (he owns three of them, after all).<\/p>\n<p>But most of all, he takes in the falls themselves. It&#8217;s the one thing none of the other tourist destinations can offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Las Vegas is man-made, Orlando is man-made,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Niagara Falls is God-made. That&#8217;s what makes it different.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: So what does the billionaire owner of Ripley Entertainment Inc. do when he&#8217;s in Niagara Falls? Believe it or not, Jim Pattison Jr. is just a regular tourist. He&#8217;ll visit Marineland, hit a winery, maybe check out the museums (he owns three of them, after all). But most of all,&#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":[2],"tags":[4635,4636,4631,1508,4634,67,3469,1000,4632,1699,3331,4633],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-god-made","tag-jim-pattison","tag-jim-pattison-jr","tag-las-vegas","tag-man-made","tag-marineland","tag-museums","tag-ripley-entertainment","tag-ripley-entertainment-inc","tag-tourist","tag-tourist-destinations","tag-winery"],"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\/9221","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=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}