{"id":515,"date":"2015-08-09T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/?p=515"},"modified":"2015-08-07T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:35:56","slug":"lake-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Lake Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mel Swart Lake Gibson Conservation Park is the largest inland man made lake in the Niagara area. Created in 1904, spanning 27 acres of farmland and meadows, the surreal piece of the world plays host to a wide variety of endangered wild life, and other habitats that have had their homes threatened by urbanization. Kids and adults of all ages will enjoy the beauty of Lake Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more visit: http:\/\/melswartlakegibsonpark.com<\/p>\n<p>Written by: Kelsey Chapman<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-516\" src=\"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lake gibson 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-517\" src=\"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lake gibson 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-2-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lake-gibson-2.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mel Swart Lake Gibson Conservation Park is the largest inland man made lake in the Niagara area. Created in 1904, spanning 27 acres of farmland and meadows, the surreal piece of the world plays host to a wide variety &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/?p=515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22,474],"tags":[672,669,673,670,671,634,887,674,8,578],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls","category-niagara-on-the-lake-2","category-st-catharines-2","tag-gibson-conservation-park","tag-lake-gibson","tag-lake-gibson-conservation-park","tag-mel-swart","tag-mel-swart-lake-gibson","tag-nature","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-nature","tag-niagara-on-the-lake","tag-things-to-do-in-niagara-falls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/niagaracottage.com\/niagaranews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}