{"id":940,"date":"2006-09-02T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/09\/02\/falls-elicits-memorable-quotes\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T14:14:28","slug":"falls-elicits-memorable-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/falls-elicits-memorable-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls elicits memorable quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?429\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Niagara Falls is a vast unnecessary amount of water flowing the wrong way over unnecessary rocks.&#8221; This quite original observation was uttered by the great Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde during his visit in February 1882.<\/p>\n<p>It is a memorable line. Over the years, there have been many other comments related to our famous falls that for their uniqueness, humour, insight or passion, deserve to be remembered.<\/p>\n<p>What follows are some additional examples of these quotable quotes. Along with his unusual description of the falls, Oscar also referred to honeymooners here when he noted: &#8220;Every American bride is taken there and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest disappointments in American married life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This remark is usually abbreviated to the somewhat more cutting: &#8220;Niagara Falls is the second greatest disappointment in American married life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: &#8220;Niagara Falls is a vast unnecessary amount of water flowing the wrong way over unnecessary rocks.&#8221; This quite original observation was uttered by the great Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde during his visit in February 1882. It is a memorable line. Over the years, there have been many other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/940","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}