{"id":9560,"date":"2011-02-14T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2011-02-14T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:49:57","slug":"niagara-falls-keeping-the-honeymoon-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/niagara-falls-keeping-the-honeymoon-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls keeping the honeymoon alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/wellandtribune.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2974927\">Welland Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The king-size, blue-velvet vibrating bed was just the start of Dave and Sandy Carson&#8217;s classic Niagara Falls honeymoon. But when the vibrating bed wouldn&#8217;t shut off after they put in a few quarters, the novelty wore off quickly. They had to unplug it.<\/p>\n<p>Now retired and living in Fort Erie, they still have fond memories of the honeymoon they took 30 years ago in August.<\/p>\n<p>They met in a bar in 1980 in Petawawa, northwest of Ottawa. Dave was a 22-year-old bombardier in an artillery regiment. Sandy, 24, ran a variety store.<\/p>\n<p>They were married Aug. 22, 1981, and drove to Niagara Falls the day after their military ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy had never been to Niagara Falls, and a visit there was affordable on a soldier&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, the city was still considered an exotic location, and their visit earned them &#8220;bragging rights,&#8221; Sandy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Welland Tribune: The king-size, blue-velvet vibrating bed was just the start of Dave and Sandy Carson&#8217;s classic Niagara Falls honeymoon. But when the vibrating bed wouldn&#8217;t shut off after they put in a few quarters, the novelty wore off quickly. They had to unplug it. Now retired and living in Fort Erie, they&#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":[2,396],"tags":[5120,570,377,5124,41,5123,5122,5121,552],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-weddings","tag-dave-carson","tag-fort-erie","tag-honeymoon","tag-military-ceremony","tag-niagara-falls","tag-petawawa","tag-retired","tag-sandy-carson","tag-welland-tribune"],"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\/9560","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=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}