{"id":9224,"date":"2010-10-28T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:23:08","slug":"a-rewarding-getaway-on-a-tight-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/a-rewarding-getaway-on-a-tight-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"A rewarding getaway on a tight budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Problem: The family needs a weekend getaway in the middle of a July heat wave, but cash-flow is tight after repairs to our aging minivan.<\/p>\n<p>Solution: Use our Aeroplan and Air Miles reward points to \u201cget out of Dodge\u201d and bankroll a glorious weekend getaway in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this isn&#8217;t quite as glamorous as converting your travel rewards for a flight to a foreign hot spot in mid-winter. But when the mercury is stuck at 35C in southern Ontario in July, a weekend escape to the Falls is almost as welcome.<\/p>\n<p>And for two youngsters who had never been there before, this was cause for real excitement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Problem: The family needs a weekend getaway in the middle of a July heat wave, but cash-flow is tight after repairs to our aging minivan. Solution: Use our Aeroplan and Air Miles reward points to \u201cget out of Dodge\u201d and bankroll a glorious weekend getaway in Niagara Falls. Maybe this isn&#8217;t&#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":[2,52],"tags":[4644,3502,3970,4645,4331,4646,246,960,4643,4642],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-aeroplan","tag-air-miles-reward","tag-excitement","tag-heat-wave","tag-hot-spot","tag-minivan","tag-southern-ontario","tag-toronto-star","tag-travel-rewards","tag-weekend-getaway"],"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\/9224","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=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}