{"id":10454,"date":"2011-11-30T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10454"},"modified":"2011-11-30T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:32:39","slug":"balancing-act-review-city-editor-and-falls-mayor-debate-merits-of-wire-walk-across-niagara-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/balancing-act-review-city-editor-and-falls-mayor-debate-merits-of-wire-walk-across-niagara-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"BALANCING ACT: Review city editor and Falls mayor debate merits of wire walk across Niagara Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3386049\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a> has a nice back-and-forth between their City Editor Corey Larocque and Mayor Jim Diodati:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda wants to walk a wire across the Niagara Gorge next summer, but the Niagara Parks Commission, whose approval he needs, is cold to the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jim Diodati is eager to see Wallenda get the green light. Diodati took the matter up with Premier Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s senior staff when the Ontario Liberals were in Niagara Falls on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But The Review&#8217;s city editor Corey Larocque is skeptical about using Niagara Falls for this spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>So, Diodati and Larocque recently hashed it out. This is an edited transcript of their debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niagara Falls Review has a nice back-and-forth between their City Editor Corey Larocque and Mayor Jim Diodati: Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda wants to walk a wire across the Niagara Gorge next summer, but the Niagara Parks Commission, whose approval he needs, is cold to the idea. Mayor Jim Diodati is eager to see Wallenda&#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":[6600,6597,6596,1111,5278,603,3317,41,1139,452,99,5673,6598,2611,6599,346,5652],"class_list":["post-10454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-balancing-act","tag-city-editor","tag-corey-larocque","tag-dalton-mcguinty","tag-debate","tag-jim-diodati","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-ontario-liberals","tag-premier","tag-the-review","tag-tightrope","tag-tightrope-walker"],"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\/10454","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=10454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}