{"id":10970,"date":"2012-04-24T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2014-02-15T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:03:13","slug":"meet-the-seventh-generation-tightrope-walker-whos-taking-on-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/meet-the-seventh-generation-tightrope-walker-whos-taking-on-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the seventh-generation tightrope walker who&#8217;s taking on Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He has hung by his jaw from a helicopter without a safety net. He holds a Guinness World Record for the longest bicycle ride on a tightrope. And this summer, he plans to make history by walking on a tightrope across the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lifestyle, and if you don\u2019t understand it \u2026\u201d Nik Wallenda says, trailing off. You can almost see the daredevil\u2019s head shake slightly in chagrin over the wire \u2013 the telephone kind \u2013 from Sarasota, Fla., where he lives in the Circus Capital of the World.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a very good article. I highly recommend you read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: He has hung by his jaw from a helicopter without a safety net. He holds a Guinness World Record for the longest bicycle ride on a tightrope. And this summer, he plans to make history by walking on a tightrope across the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ont. \u201cIt\u2019s a&#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":[74,26,2],"tags":[105,4393,510,7282,142,41,5673,7284,6615,7283,5652],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-daredevil","tag-florida","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-guinness-world-record","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-safety-net","tag-sarasota","tag-seventh-generation","tag-tightrope-walker"],"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\/10970","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=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}