{"id":10648,"date":"2012-01-24T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10648"},"modified":"2012-01-24T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:09:20","slug":"wallenda-getting-second-chance-to-woo-niagara-parks-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/wallenda-getting-second-chance-to-woo-niagara-parks-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda getting second chance to woo Niagara Parks Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3446375\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are people on both sides of the Nik Wallenda fence, but everyone now seems to agree that it\u2019s an international walk or no walk at all.<\/p>\n<p>Wallenda, the American aerialist who has proposed walking across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, is now waiting for a second meeting with the Niagara Parks Commission in hopes of getting the commission to reverse its earlier decision not to allow the walk.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Ontario Tourism Minister Michael Chan Friday, Wallenda said he was encouraged to hear the minister\u2019s interest in the proposal, which would see Wallenda walk across the Horseshoe falls this spring or summer.<\/p>\n<p>Wallenda was denied permission by the NPC last month, and was hoping Chan would overrule that decision. While the minister didn\u2019t reverse the NPC\u2019s call, he did suggest a second meeting between the aerialist and the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Chairwoman Janice Thomson said Monday she would sit down with Wallenda for a longer meeting than the formal 10-minute forum he was given on Nov. 16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: There are people on both sides of the Nik Wallenda fence, but everyone now seems to agree that it\u2019s an international walk or no walk at all. Wallenda, the American aerialist who has proposed walking across the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, is now waiting for a second meeting with&#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_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":[3827,3070,452,99,5673,1100,468],"class_list":["post-10648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-janice-thomson","tag-michael-chan","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-ontario-tourism","tag-tourism-minister"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648","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=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10649,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions\/10649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}