{"id":10875,"date":"2012-03-26T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2012-03-24T10:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T14:26:57","slug":"wallenda-on-hbos-real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/wallenda-on-hbos-real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.buffalonews.com\/niagara_views\/2012\/03\/wallenda-on-hbos-real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel.html\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Nik Wallenda walks an 1,800-foot cable above Niagara Falls this summer, his biggest challenge won\u2019t be the mist or wind in his face \u2013 it\u2019ll be the first step of his historic feat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first step\u2019s definitely the hardest one,\u201d Wallenda said Tuesday on HBO\u2019s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. \u201cAfter the first step\u2019s over you\u2019re there, you\u2019re committed. After the first step, you\u2019re not gonna turn around and come back. Youre just gonna go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallenda this week got a taste of the national fame he\u2019s expected to bring to the falls when he walks the wire sometime between June and September.<\/p>\n<p>The stuntman and father told legendary Sports Illustrated reporter Frank Deford, now working with HBO, that his parents used to shake his practice cable to prepare him for the surprises he might face on the wire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: When Nik Wallenda walks an 1,800-foot cable above Niagara Falls this summer, his biggest challenge won\u2019t be the mist or wind in his face \u2013 it\u2019ll be the first step of his historic feat. &#8220;The first step\u2019s definitely the hardest one,\u201d Wallenda said Tuesday on HBO\u2019s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel&#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":[74,26,3,2],"tags":[7180,319,7184,7185,7183,41,7179,1934,6216,4485],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bryant-gumbel","tag-buffalo-news","tag-cable","tag-first-step","tag-frank-deford","tag-niagara-falls","tag-real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel","tag-stuntman","tag-wallenda","tag-wire-walk"],"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\/10875","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=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}