{"id":10661,"date":"2012-01-26T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10661"},"modified":"2012-01-26T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:24:28","slug":"the-niagara-daredevil-i-knew-didnt-quit-and-it-killed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/the-niagara-daredevil-i-knew-didnt-quit-and-it-killed-him\/","title":{"rendered":"The Niagara daredevil I knew didn&#8217;t quit &#8211; and it killed him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/buffalo\/blog\/the_last_laugh\/2012\/01\/the-niagara-falls-daredevil-i-knew.html?ana=RSS&amp;s=article_search&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+vertical_64+%28Tourism+Industry+News%29\">Buffalo Business First<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On July 3, 1984, a Czech emigre by the name of Karel Soucek rode in a nine-foot barrel over the cataracts at Niagara Falls, and lived.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, on Jan. 19, 1985, a stunt he was performing in the Houston Astrodome malfunctioned and within a day he was dead, the victim of massive injuries.<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking about Soucek after reading that Nik Wallenda is still trying to get official permission to walk on a high wire above Niagara Falls. These fellows always come to Niagara Falls, don&#8217;t they?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Buffalo Business First: On July 3, 1984, a Czech emigre by the name of Karel Soucek rode in a nine-foot barrel over the cataracts at Niagara Falls, and lived. A few months later, on Jan. 19, 1985, a stunt he was performing in the Houston Astrodome malfunctioned and within a day he was dead,&#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":[74,3,2],"tags":[6906,1153,2324,6904,3826,1931,6905,1928,41,5673],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-6906","tag-buffalo-business-first","tag-cataracts","tag-czech","tag-high-wire","tag-houston-astrodome","tag-july-3","tag-karel-soucek","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda"],"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\/10661","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=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}