{"id":10462,"date":"2011-12-05T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:25:26","slug":"pressure-mounts-to-ok-walk-across-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/pressure-mounts-to-ok-walk-across-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts to OK walk across Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2011\/12\/02\/pressure_mounts_to_ok_walk_across_niagara_falls.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an aerialist\u2019s bid to tightrope walk across Niagara Falls next summer hangs in the balance, the commission ruling on his proposal is facing pressure to let the event proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Nik\u00a0Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the famed tightrope-walking Wallenda family, hopes to fulfill his lifelong dream of walking across the falls on a wire.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal has cleared all legal hurdles on the American side, but authority to approve or reject Wallenda\u2019s idea in Canada rests with the Niagara Parks Commission. Chair Janice Thomson has repeatedly said the walk would be a stunt contrary to the commission\u2019s mandate to preserve the falls\u2019 natural beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Wallenda maintains his balancing act is an art form, not a stunt. He made his case before the commission two weeks ago in a 12-minute presentation. The commission is reviewing the proposal and Thomson said she expects a ruling early next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: As an aerialist\u2019s bid to tightrope walk across Niagara Falls next summer hangs in the balance, the commission ruling on his proposal is facing pressure to let the event proceed. Nik\u00a0Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the famed tightrope-walking Wallenda family, hopes to fulfill his lifelong dream of walking across the falls&#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":[6625,6600,1237,6626,3827,6624,2263,41,99,5673,255,640,346,960,6433,4485],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-aerialist","tag-balancing-act","tag-canada","tag-commission-chair","tag-janice-thomson","tag-legal-hurdles","tag-natural-beauty","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-npc","tag-proposal","tag-tightrope","tag-toronto-star","tag-wallenda-family","tag-wire-walk"],"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\/10462","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=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}