{"id":10038,"date":"2011-08-05T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2011-08-05T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:42:26","slug":"wallenda-meets-with-canadians-npc-slams-wirewalk-as-not-appropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/wallenda-meets-with-canadians-npc-slams-wirewalk-as-not-appropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda meets with Canadians, NPC slams wirewalk as &#8216;not appropriate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3244752\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a> (includes article, video, and pictures):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After his first meeting with officials on the Canadian side of the Niagara River on Thursday, Nik Wallenda was careful to walk a fine line of cautious optimism despite the fact the Niagara Parks Commission outright opposes his idea to cross the Horseshoe Falls on a wire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very positive no matter what,&#8221; Wallenda said after meeting with NPC general manager Fay Booker. &#8220;My great-grandfather (Karl Wallenda) told us to never give up and I would never give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wallenda was in Niagara Falls, Ont., to sell his bid to local officials who will decide whether or not to allow him to cross the Horseshoe Falls on a steel wire next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the same article as the Tonawanda News article I linked to earlier today. However, the video and pictures are unique to the Niagara Falls Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review (includes article, video, and pictures): After his first meeting with officials on the Canadian side of the Niagara River on Thursday, Nik Wallenda was careful to walk a fine line of cautious optimism despite the fact the Niagara Parks Commission outright opposes his idea to cross the Horseshoe Falls on&#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":[74,2],"tags":[3068,5927,99,144,5673,255,623,1798],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-fay-booker","tag-karl-wallenda","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-river","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-npc","tag-tonawanda-news","tag-video"],"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\/10038","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=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}