{"id":11155,"date":"2012-05-23T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11155"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:19:14","slug":"wallenda-abruptly-cancels-final-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/wallenda-abruptly-cancels-final-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda abruptly cancels final practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/news\/article\/1359950\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, who will be crossing the Falls between the U.S. and Canada on June 15, has been holding his practice sessions open to the public May 12-22 at the Seneca Niagara casino, twice a day and yet before Tuesday\u2019s last appearance he unexpectedly cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators lined up against the concrete barriers waiting for their chance to catch a glimpse of Wallenda but instead were met with the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Faust, from the entertainment department at Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel spoke to the crowd anticipating the training session that at Tuesday\u2019s noon press conference \u201cNik Wallenda announced that due to mental and physical exhaustion that the training session between 3:30 and 5 p.m. has been cancelled.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, who will be crossing the Falls between the U.S. and Canada on June 15, has been holding his practice sessions open to the public May 12-22 at the Seneca Niagara casino, twice a day and yet before Tuesday\u2019s last appearance he unexpectedly cancelled. Spectators lined up against&#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":[74,26,2],"tags":[7464,7463,451,5673,7461,5543,966,7462],"class_list":["post-11155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-exhaustion","tag-greg-faust","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-practice-sessions","tag-press-conference","tag-seneca-niagara-casino","tag-training-session"],"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\/11155","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=11155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}