{"id":10914,"date":"2012-03-29T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2012-03-28T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:46:39","slug":"stunting-wall-knocked-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/29\/stunting-wall-knocked-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunting wall \u2018knocked down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/03\/27\/stunting-wall-knocked-down\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Nik Wallenda is allowed to walk over Niagara Falls, then daredevil Peter DeBernardi wants a chance to go over them \u2014 again.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t remember his name, rewind to Sept. 27, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Peter DeBernardi, then 42, and Jeffrey Petkovich, 24, climbed into a home-made barrel at about 5:30 p.m. and plunged 175 feet over the mighty cataract. They suffered cuts and bruises, but survived the drop over the Horseshoe Falls and became the first to go over in a two-man barrel.<\/p>\n<p>DeBernardi, 65, now lives in Hamilton. He is requesting approval from the Niagara Parks Commission to \u201cgo over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a craft known as Spirit of Niagara II.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: If Nik Wallenda is allowed to walk over Niagara Falls, then daredevil Peter DeBernardi wants a chance to go over them \u2014 again. For those who don\u2019t remember his name, rewind to Sept. 27, 1989. Peter DeBernardi, then 42, and Jeffrey Petkovich, 24, climbed into a home-made barrel at about&#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":[74,2],"tags":[142,99,5673,7229],"class_list":["post-10914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-peter-debernardi"],"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\/10914","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=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}