{"id":11137,"date":"2012-05-21T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11137"},"modified":"2012-05-20T21:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T01:58:45","slug":"nik-wallenda-prepares-for-his-niagara-falls-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/nik-wallenda-prepares-for-his-niagara-falls-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nik Wallenda Prepares for His Niagara Falls Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/18\/nyregion\/nik-wallenda-prepares-for-his-niagara-falls-stunt.html?_r=1\">New York Times has a nice article<\/a> (including video) of Nik Wallenda practicing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nik Wallenda climbed up a scaffold, stepped onto the steel cable and slipped the harness of his balancing pole over his head. Then he began to walk \u2014 each step a few inches in front of the last, his leather moccasins kissing the wire that lay before him.<\/p>\n<p>The backdrop: a T.G.I. Friday\u2019s restaurant, a Starbucks and a Sheraton hotel to the left, and the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel to the right.<\/p>\n<p>The scenery next month will be different: the rapids of Niagara Falls swirling below, a cold mist enveloping Mr. Wallenda, a national television audience watching in prime time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news\/local\/article\/727747--daredevil-preps-for-niagara-high-wire-walk\">Hamilton Spectator also had a nice article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many in the crowd moved along with Nik Wallenda, slowly, at a distance, as the daredevil walked gingerly atop a high wire over the parking lot at Seneca Niagara Casino.<\/p>\n<p>But the couple of hundred spectators needed to keep their balance on a sidewalk rather than a five-centimetre-wide cable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a nice article (including video) of Nik Wallenda practicing: Nik Wallenda climbed up a scaffold, stepped onto the steel cable and slipped the harness of his balancing pole over his head. Then he began to walk \u2014 each step a few inches in front of the last, his leather moccasins&#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":[74,26,2],"tags":[7434,2071,7433,1275,41,5673,7218,7435,966,3557,7436,6188],"class_list":["post-11137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-cold-mist","tag-hamilton-spectator","tag-leather-moccasins","tag-new-york-times","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-prime-time","tag-scaffold","tag-seneca-niagara-casino","tag-sheraton-hotel","tag-starbucks","tag-steel-cable"],"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\/11137","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=11137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11138,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11137\/revisions\/11138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}