{"id":10324,"date":"2011-10-25T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2014-02-15T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:03:04","slug":"wallenda-making-pitch-to-canada-for-tightrope-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/wallenda-making-pitch-to-canada-for-tightrope-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda making pitch to Canada for tightrope walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagara-gazette.com\/local\/x250780883\/Wallenda-making-pitch-to-Canada-for-tightrope-walk\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nik Wallenda\u2019s lifelong dream may be coming closer to reality.<\/p>\n<p>The tightrope walker and his team met with Canadian officials Thursday in continuing efforts to convince that side of the border to allow a wire walk next year above Niagara Falls. Wallenda said he wasn\u2019t expecting anything but a continuation of the dialogue his group has had with elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t perceive a 100 percent go-ahead,\u201d he said during a press conference Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019re just discussing the next step. But we\u2019ve gotten great support from Mayor Jim Diodati and the other officials\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I saw several other articles about this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo &#8211; Wallenda Visits Niagara Falls For Gorge Walk<\/li>\n<li>Buffalo News &#8211; Wallenda meets Canadian officials<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3341253\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a> &#8211; Wirewalker has &#8216;plan B&#8217; ready if Canada says no<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: Nik Wallenda\u2019s lifelong dream may be coming closer to reality. The tightrope walker and his team met with Canadian officials Thursday in continuing efforts to convince that side of the border to allow a wire walk next year above Niagara Falls. Wallenda said he wasn\u2019t expecting anything but a continuation of&#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":[74,26,2],"tags":[319,1237,6296,603,1139,561,5673,5652,4485,3220],"class_list":["post-10324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-buffalo-news","tag-canada","tag-canadian-officials","tag-jim-diodati","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-gazette","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-tightrope-walker","tag-wire-walk","tag-wkbw-channel-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324","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=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}