{"id":9468,"date":"2011-01-19T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9468"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:32:35","slug":"bidders-revealed-in-canadian-competition-for-maid-of-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/bidders-revealed-in-canadian-competition-for-maid-of-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"BIDDERS REVEALED IN CANADIAN COMPETITION FOR MAID OF THE MIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreporter.com\/parlato1.18.11.html\">Niagara Falls Reporter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Falls Reporter&#8217;s expose on the secret dealings surrounding the Maid of the Mist boat tour lease at the Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) in Ontario was instrumental in leading the minister of Tourism to order the NPC to put that lease out to bid. Subsequently, most of the NPC commissioners were fired.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the bids, or &#8220;Responses to the Request for Proposals,&#8221; is 3 p.m., Jan. 31. An award will be made sometime this summer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Again, exclusively, the Reporter has learned the identity of the bidders:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how they find this stuff out, but check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Reporter: The Niagara Falls Reporter&#8217;s expose on the secret dealings surrounding the Maid of the Mist boat tour lease at the Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) in Ontario was instrumental in leading the minister of Tourism to order the NPC to put that lease out to bid. Subsequently, most of the NPC&#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":[16,2],"tags":[3180,4971,88,4929,4930,3384,99,255,3524],"class_list":["post-9468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bidders","tag-canadian-competition","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-maid-of-the-mist-boat","tag-maid-of-the-mist-boat-tour","tag-minister-of-tourism","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-request-for-proposals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468","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=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}