{"id":9892,"date":"2011-07-05T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2011-07-05T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:31:58","slug":"falls-parks-canada-thrives-u-s-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/falls-parks-canada-thrives-u-s-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls Parks: Canada Thrives, U.S. Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wned\/news.newsmain\/article\/0\/0\/1819779\/WNED-AM.970.NEWS\/Falls.Parks.Canada.Thrives..U.S..Struggles\">WNED-AM 970 NEWS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On one side of Niagara Falls, state parks need $85 million in repairs while on the Ontario side millions of dollars are going into renovation of Old Fort Erie and the Laura Secord House.<\/p>\n<p>WNED&#8217;s Mike Desmond talked with the Chairwoman of the Niagara Parks Commission, Fay Booker, about the difference.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the commission will spend around $100 million (Canadian) on its capital and operating budgets, serving millions of visitors from Fort Erie to Niagara-on-the-Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario agency is set up to pay for itself by raising money and keeping it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WNED-AM 970 NEWS: On one side of Niagara Falls, state parks need $85 million in repairs while on the Ontario side millions of dollars are going into renovation of Old Fort Erie and the Laura Secord House. WNED&#8217;s Mike Desmond talked with the Chairwoman of the Niagara Parks Commission, Fay Booker, about the difference&#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_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":[54,2,27],"tags":[5707,3308,3068,570,5706,242,99,255,1351,1165,245],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","tag-budgets","tag-chairwoman","tag-fay-booker","tag-fort-erie","tag-laura-secord","tag-niagara-on-the-lake","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-renovation","tag-state-parks","tag-wned"],"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\/9892","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=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}