{"id":10018,"date":"2011-08-04T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10018"},"modified":"2011-08-03T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T14:16:15","slug":"first-app-from-ripley%e2%80%99s-believe-it-or-not-is-tough-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/first-app-from-ripley%e2%80%99s-believe-it-or-not-is-tough-to-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"First App from Ripley\u2019s Believe It or Not! is Tough to Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this isn&#8217;t directly Niagara Falls-related, but there is a connection&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You probably will remember that over the last few years the Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not! Museum in Niagara Falls has hosted a sword swallower on International Sword Swallowers Day. I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/28\/pictures-and-video-of-riley-schillaci-sword-swallower-at-ripleys-in-niagara-falls\/\">Riley Schillaci<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/vanessa-neil-sword-swallower-at-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-museum\/\">Vanessa Neil<\/a> (click their names to see pictures and videos of their performances).<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently now Ripley&#8217;s has released an app releated to sword swallowing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sword swallowing. Yeah, there\u2019s an app for that \u2013 thanks to Ripley\u2019s Believe It or Not!<\/p>\n<p>Ripley\u2019s allows users to sharpen their sword swallowing skills with new app for iPhone, iPod Touch<\/p>\n<p>Ripley\u2019s first-ever app is called iSword, and was created for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It allows players to test the speed of their reactions in a sword swallowing game that unlocks iSword, a cutting-edge experience that utilizes the device\u2019s camera for a truly unique, virtual-reality sword swallowing simulation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripleysnewsroom.com\/isword\/\">You can read the entire press release here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this isn&#8217;t directly Niagara Falls-related, but there is a connection&#8230; You probably will remember that over the last few years the Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not! Museum in Niagara Falls has hosted a sword swallower on International Sword Swallowers Day. I&#8217;ve seen Riley Schillaci and Vanessa Neil (click their names to see pictures&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[2],"tags":[5915,2749,5916,669,1053,414,1012,3013,3011],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-international-sword-swallowers-day","tag-iphone","tag-ipod-touch","tag-press-release","tag-riley-schillaci","tag-ripleys","tag-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-museum","tag-sword-swallower","tag-vanessa-neil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018","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=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}