{"id":10482,"date":"2011-12-27T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:38:45","slug":"daredevil-still-dreams-of-tightrope-walk-across-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/daredevil-still-dreams-of-tightrope-walk-across-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil still dreams of tightrope walk across Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/CTVNews\/Canada\/20111208\/nik-wallenda-tightrope-111208\/\">CTV.ca<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canadian officials may have turned him down, but an American man says he&#8217;s not ready to give up his dream of walking a tightrope suspended across Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Nik Wallenda, a stunt artist hailing from seven generations of circus performers, was told by the Niagara Parks Commission late Wednesday that he wouldn&#8217;t be allowed to go ahead with his stunt even though U.S. officials provided their permission weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a little bit disheartened,&#8221; Wallenda told The Canadian Press from his house in Saratosa, Fla. &#8220;But it&#8217;s another page in the book and I&#8217;ll continue to pursue it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CTV.ca: Canadian officials may have turned him down, but an American man says he&#8217;s not ready to give up his dream of walking a tightrope suspended across Niagara Falls. Nik Wallenda, a stunt artist hailing from seven generations of circus performers, was told by the Niagara Parks Commission late Wednesday that he wouldn&#8217;t be&#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":[6296,1916,6688,105,4393,41,99,5673,6615,346,3994],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-canadian-officials","tag-canadian-press","tag-circus-performers","tag-daredevil","tag-florida","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-sarasota","tag-tightrope","tag-wednesday"],"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\/10482","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=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}