{"id":11151,"date":"2012-05-22T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11151"},"modified":"2012-05-22T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:42:25","slug":"its-amazing-man-survives-plunge-over-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/its-amazing-man-survives-plunge-over-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s amazing&#8217;: Man survives plunge over Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/05\/21\/man-survives-plunge-over-niagara-falls\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Experienced rescuers said it\u2019s \u201camazing\u201d a man survived going over Niagara Falls Monday morning \u2014 only the fourth time someone has taken the 54-metre plunge and lived.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified man went over the Horseshoe Falls in what police say was an unsuccessful suicide attempt that unfolded in front of hundreds of Victoria Day tourists in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers found him at the bottom of the Horseshoe Falls, on the rocks near the Journey Behind the Falls attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Parks Police and firefighters were called to the area at 10:20 a.m., after receiving unconfirmed reports from tourists that a man had gone over the falls.<\/p>\n<p>After interviewing witnesses and checking surveillance tape, police confirmed the man had gone into the water about six to 10 metres upriver from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Experienced rescuers said it\u2019s \u201camazing\u201d a man survived going over Niagara Falls Monday morning \u2014 only the fourth time someone has taken the 54-metre plunge and lived. An unidentified man went over the Horseshoe Falls in what police say was an unsuccessful suicide attempt that unfolded in front of hundreds&#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":[2],"tags":[208,5419,125,41,132,7452,7454,3592,1145,7453,84,1475],"class_list":["post-11151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-brink","tag-firefighters","tag-journey-behind-the-falls","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks","tag-plunge-over-niagara-falls","tag-rescuers","tag-rocks","tag-suicide-attempt","tag-surveillance-tape","tag-tourists","tag-victoria-day"],"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\/11151","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=11151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}