{"id":9555,"date":"2011-02-10T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2011-02-09T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:28:42","slug":"big-becky-to-surface-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/big-becky-to-surface-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Becky to surface this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2968429\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After four years of underground burrowing, Big Becky is about to surface near Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Big Becky is the nicknmame of the tunnel-boring machine digging a 10-km tunnel under the city of Niagara Falls that will bring more water to the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric generators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If all goes well, we&#8217;ll be breaking through the other side in April,&#8221; said Tom Mitchell, president of Ontario Power Generation, the provincially owned company responsible for producing electricity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: After four years of underground burrowing, Big Becky is about to surface near Niagara Falls. Big Becky is the nicknmame of the tunnel-boring machine digging a 10-km tunnel under the city of Niagara Falls that will bring more water to the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric generators. &#8220;If all goes well,&#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":[390,2],"tags":[5093,5091,10410,2194,5089,5092,5090],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-hydroelectric-power","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-big-becky","tag-hydroelectric-generators","tag-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-ontario-power-generation","tag-sir-adam-beck","tag-tom-mitchell","tag-tunnel-boring-machine"],"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\/9555","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=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}