{"id":10491,"date":"2011-12-27T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10491"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:36:28","slug":"wallenda-hopes-to-follow-in-footsteps-of-tightrope-walkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/wallenda-hopes-to-follow-in-footsteps-of-tightrope-walkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda hopes to follow in footsteps of tightrope walkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3394018\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Wednesday afternoon, Nik Wallenda will find out if he will be come the first person in more than a century to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Parks Commission says it will announce its decision on Wallenda&#8217;s proposal for a cross-gorge skywalk at some point Wednesday. If they say yes, the 32-year-old American will move forward with his plan for a late-spring walk that he says will draw more than 125,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s a no, Wallenda plans to immediately appeal to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to overrule the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, he plans to hold a press conference in Niagara Falls Thursday or Friday. &#8220;Hopefully, we&#8217;ll be celebrating the good news,&#8221; he said from his home in Sarasota, Fla., Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: By Wednesday afternoon, Nik Wallenda will find out if he will be come the first person in more than a century to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope. The Niagara Parks Commission says it will announce its decision on Wallenda&#8217;s proposal for a cross-gorge skywalk at some point&#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":[1111,4393,41,452,99,5673,6572,640,6615,6718,346,6719],"class_list":["post-10491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-dalton-mcguinty","tag-florida","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-ontario-premier","tag-proposal","tag-sarasota","tag-skywalk","tag-tightrope","tag-tightrope-walkers"],"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\/10491","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=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}