{"id":48659,"date":"2016-07-05T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=48659"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:12:40","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-newlyweds-fall-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-newlyweds-fall-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why Do Newlyweds Fall for the Falls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_48666\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/waterfall-ring?source=blog_uk160705\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48666\" class=\"wp-image-48666 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Waterfall-Ring.jpg\" alt=\"Waterfall Ring | UncommonGoods\" width=\"650\" height=\"649\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/waterfall-ring?source=blog_uk160705\" target=\"_blank\">Waterfall Ring<\/a> | UncommonGoods<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cascading water, misty sprays, rainbow skies: Niagara Falls offers some pretty obvious aesthetic benefits. But other than its Instagram-worthy backdrop beauty, why, exactly, did the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niagara_Falls,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Twin Cities<\/a> \u2014 which straddle the Canadian and U.S. borders \u2014 become known as the Honeymoon Capital of the World?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chalk it up to the rich and famous. In 1801, then Vice President Aaron Burr\u2019s daughter Theodosia visited the Falls following her wedding to future South Carolina governor Joseph Alston. Three years later, Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s brother Jerome drove by stagecoach with his bride Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d Patterson to the majestic northern falls following their Baltimore nuptials. Commoners soon followed, but the phrase \u201cHoneymoon Capital of the World\u201d didn\u2019t start appearing on promotional materials for Niagara Falls until the early 1900s. By then, railways and the Erie Canal \u2014 not to mention cars \u2014 offered much easier access to the falls.<\/p>\n<p>These days, newlyweds are more likely to toast their new life together in a tropical locale, yet the Niagara Falls Tourism board estimates the geographical wonder still hosts about 50,000 honeymoons a year \u2014 almost 962 every week!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/waterfall-ring?source=blog_uk160705\" target=\"_blank\">Waterfall Ring<\/a> | $175.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cascading water, misty sprays, rainbow skies: Niagara Falls offers some pretty obvious aesthetic benefits. But other than its Instagram-worthy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":48666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48659"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49515,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48659\/revisions\/49515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}