{"id":10869,"date":"2012-03-21T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2014-02-15T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:03:12","slug":"gumbel-will-did-interview-wallenda-on-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/gumbel-will-did-interview-wallenda-on-hbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumbel will (did) interview Wallenda on HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10870\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/gumbel-will-did-interview-wallenda-on-hbo\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_01.jpg?fit=435%2C379\" data-orig-size=\"435,379\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_01.jpg?fit=435%2C379\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10870\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_01\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_01.jpg?resize=435%2C379\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the Buffalo News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nik Wallenda, who is planning to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls this summer, will be featured on \u201cReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel\u201d on HBO at 10 p.m. today, State Sen. George Maziarz, R-Newfane, and Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-Lewiston, said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Wallenda will be interviewed about his upcoming walk and will talk about the history of his acrobat family, the Flying Wallendas, and the previous walks he has made.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get HBO, so I looked online to see if I could watch the broadcast (it was shown last night). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel\/index.html\">HBO Real Sports web site<\/a> has a brief clip, but that&#8217;s all I can find. Here are a couple of screenshots. I think the second one is particularly interesting. He was chatting with the interviewer as he was standing on a wire. He stood there and looked like he was as comfortable on a wire as I am on the ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10871\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/gumbel-will-did-interview-wallenda-on-hbo\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02.jpg?fit=1622%2C911\" data-orig-size=\"1622,911\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02.jpg?fit=640%2C359\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10871\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02.jpg?resize=450%2C252\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02.jpg?resize=450%2C252 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02.jpg?resize=1024%2C575 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02.jpg?w=1622 1622w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_02.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10872\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/gumbel-will-did-interview-wallenda-on-hbo\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03.jpg?fit=1427%2C888\" data-orig-size=\"1427,888\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03.jpg?fit=640%2C398\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10872\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03.jpg?resize=450%2C280\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03.jpg?resize=450%2C280 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03.jpg?resize=1024%2C637 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03.jpg?w=1427 1427w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hbo_real_sports_flying_wallendas_03.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Nik Wallenda, who is planning to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls this summer, will be featured on \u201cReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel\u201d on HBO at 10 p.m. today, State Sen. George Maziarz, R-Newfane, and Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-Lewiston, said Monday. Wallenda will be interviewed about his upcoming walk and will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[74,78,2],"tags":[7182,7181,7180,319,5674,5911,5099,41,5673,7179,346],"class_list":["post-10869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-in-pop-culture","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-acrobat-family","tag-assemblyman","tag-bryant-gumbel","tag-buffalo-news","tag-flying-wallendas","tag-george-maziarz","tag-hbo","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel","tag-tightrope"],"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\/10869","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=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}