{"id":18,"date":"2016-06-29T23:26:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T23:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2016-10-14T04:04:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T04:04:14","slug":"the-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"the story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Niagara Falls is a most enjoyable place of resort&#8230;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h5>&#8230;The hotels are excellent, and the prices not at all exorbitant.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Niagara&#8221; is the title of a short story written by Mark Twain and originally published in 1875 in a collection of tales titled <em>Sketches, New and Old<\/em>. The &#8220;Niagara&#8221; story is autobiographical in nature, featuring a young Samuel Clemens as he &#8211; for the first time &#8211; engages in the beauty and mystery of Niagara.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/story\/NIAGARA_Mark_Twain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">This story is in the public domain, and you can click here to read it!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Mark Twain&#8217;s Niagara&#8221; features that we are producing &#8211; including the film, graphic novel and live shows &#8211; are based on the original &#8220;Niagara&#8221; story, but injected with events and characters from Twain&#8217;s more popular works, various settings, history, mystery, action and adventure!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The film is currently in pre-production and you can see the first 100 storyboards to get a sense of the adventure by clicking the image below:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a style=\"padding-top:15px; padding-bottom:60px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/story\/Niagar-Film-Storyboards-1-100.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Niagara-Storyboard-3.png\" alt=\"niagara-storyboard-3\" width=\"678\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Niagara-Storyboard-3.png 678w, http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Niagara-Storyboard-3-300x65.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>You can descend a staircase here a hundred and fifty feet down, and stand at the edge of the water. After you have done it, you will wonder why you did it; but you will then be too late.<\/h5>\n<h6>~ &#8220;Niagara,&#8221; Sketches Old and New<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara Falls is a most enjoyable place of resort&#8230; &#8230;The hotels are excellent, and the prices not at all exorbitant. &nbsp; &#8220;Niagara&#8221; is the title of a short story written by Mark Twain and originally published in 1875 in a collection of tales titled Sketches, New and Old. The &#8220;Niagara&#8221; story is autobiographical in nature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marktwainsniagara.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}