{"id":10484,"date":"2011-12-27T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10484"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:38:28","slug":"canada-nixes-wallendas-niagara-rope-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/canada-nixes-wallendas-niagara-rope-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada nixes Wallenda&#8217;s Niagara rope walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2011\/12\/08\/Canada-nixes-Wallendas-Niagara-rope-walk\/UPI-12821323353383\/\">UPI<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canadian officials in Niagara Falls have denied daredevil Nik Wallenda&#8217;s application to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night, the Niagara Parks Commission voted to deny a permit for the stunt, planned for June, the Toronto Star reported.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was for Wallenda to cross from Goat Island, which separates the U.S. falls and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, 1,800 feet across the gorge, on a 2-inch-wide steel cable to the Canadian side.<\/p>\n<p>Parks Commissioner Janice Thomson told the Star there are safety concerns as well as a fear it would spur unauthorized copycat stunts. She said the event also didn&#8217;t fit with long-term planning for the park region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From UPI: Canadian officials in Niagara Falls have denied daredevil Nik Wallenda&#8217;s application to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope next summer. Wednesday night, the Niagara Parks Commission voted to deny a permit for the stunt, planned for June, the Toronto Star reported. The plan was for Wallenda to cross from Goat Island,&#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":[650,6296,105,651,142,3827,41,452,99,5673,255,6692,6188,346,960,6217],"class_list":["post-10484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-american-falls","tag-canadian-officials","tag-daredevil","tag-goat-island","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-janice-thomson","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-npc","tag-safety-concerns","tag-steel-cable","tag-tightrope","tag-toronto-star","tag-upi"],"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\/10484","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=10484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}