{"id":87,"date":"2012-08-02T01:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T08:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=87"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:06:10","slug":"august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/02\/august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2: New York to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/American-Falls-Niagara.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/American-Falls-Niagara.png\" alt=\"American Falls at Niagara Falls, NY\" title=\"American Falls at Niagara\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/American-Falls-Niagara.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/American-Falls-Niagara-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Falls at Niagara Falls, NY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 684 &#8211; London.<\/strong> No, we&#8217;re not at the Olympics, but in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 Long day.\u00a0 We started at 8:20 AM, stopped at 9 PM.\u00a0 On the way we went through Ithaca and Interlaken, NY,\u00a0where P.J. went to visit her Great Aunt Esther&#8217;s gravesite, her inspiration for this trip.<\/p>\n<p>Onwards to Niagara Falls,\u00a0Canadian side.\u00a0 I was there 40 years ago.\u00a0 I was appalled at the crass commercialism that has developed since then.\u00a0 Big hotel skyscrapers, $20 minimum parking fee, even if you just want to stop for 10 minutes (although 1 mile away parking is $5 or free).\u00a0 So P.J. and I dropped each other off and hovered in the car while we took turns taking pictures.\u00a0 That was enough.\u00a0 The natural phenomena is still impressive.\u00a0 Too bad we managed to deface it.<\/p>\n<p>~ Posted by Arjan<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to see P.J.&#8217;s photo galleries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/02\/129\/\" title=\"August 2: Photos of Niagara Falls\">Niagara Falls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/vintage\/2012\/08\/02\/august2-lake-view-cemetery-interlaken-ny\/\" title=\"Vintage Postcard Project, August 2: Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken, NY\">Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken, NY<\/a> (Vintage Postcard blog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Photograph &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 684 &#8211; London. No, we&#8217;re not at the Olympics, but in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 Long day.\u00a0 We started at 8:20 AM, stopped at 9 PM.\u00a0 On the way we went through Ithaca and Interlaken, NY,\u00a0where P.J. went to visit her Great Aunt Esther&#8217;s gravesite, her inspiration for this trip. Onwards to Niagara Falls,\u00a0Canadian side.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/02\/august-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 2: New York to London&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}