{"id":11154,"date":"2012-05-23T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2012-05-22T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:29:08","slug":"abc-orders-wallenda-to-wear-harness-for-falls-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/abc-orders-wallenda-to-wear-harness-for-falls-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC orders Wallenda to wear harness for falls walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Canada\/2012\/05\/22\/19785661.html?cid=rssnewscanada\">CNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For some tourists, Nik Wallenda&#8217;s wirewalk across Niagara Falls will still be a spectacle worth watching, even if he wears a safety harness. But others say the precautionary device dashes any excitement surrounding the event on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could see some people being disappointed, but it will still be something to see,&#8221; Kim Andrews of West Virginia said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won&#8217;t be as dramatic, but that&#8217;s a long way to walk and it&#8217;s not something you see often,&#8221; her husband Michael added.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. TV network ABC is insisting Wallenda wear the safety equipment. ABC will televise the historic walk. Without ABC&#8217;s financial backing of the event, Wallenda says he simply can&#8217;t do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNews: For some tourists, Nik Wallenda&#8217;s wirewalk across Niagara Falls will still be a spectacle worth watching, even if he wears a safety harness. But others say the precautionary device dashes any excitement surrounding the event on June 15. &#8220;I could see some people being disappointed, but it will still be something to see,&#8221;&#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":[2827,7456,7455,41,5673,7457,7458,7459,7460,6616],"class_list":["post-11154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-abc","tag-cnews","tag-kim-andrews","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-safety-equipment","tag-safety-harness","tag-tv-network","tag-west-virginia","tag-wirewalk"],"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\/11154","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=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}