{"id":9652,"date":"2011-03-31T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2014-02-15T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T17:23:21","slug":"defining-niagara-through-a-new-lens-is-our-key-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/defining-niagara-through-a-new-lens-is-our-key-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Niagara through a new lens is our key to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Bullet Media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A common mistake that we human beings regularly make is not being able to see the forest for the trees \u2013 missing the big picture because we are so focused on the small details we are involved in that we take the progress we are making or the assets that we have for granted because we are too close to actually see them for the value they provide.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara is like this in many ways \u2013 so focused on old definitions, geography and boundaries that were used to describe us, the things that other communities are doing, or that we feel aren\u2019t being done or done well in our region, that we totally miss the great things that are happening, and the opportunities right in front of us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bullet Media: A common mistake that we human beings regularly make is not being able to see the forest for the trees \u2013 missing the big picture because we are so focused on the small details we are involved in that we take the progress we are making or the assets that we have&#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":[2,49],"tags":[5251,5253,5254,5252,5250],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-big-picture","tag-boundaries","tag-definitions","tag-forest-for-the-trees","tag-geography"],"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\/9652","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=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}