{"id":11161,"date":"2012-05-24T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:25:45","slug":"how-did-these-people-survive-a-plunge-over-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/how-did-these-people-survive-a-plunge-over-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"How did these people survive a plunge over Niagara Falls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/05\/22\/how_did_these_people_survive_a_plunge_over_niagara_falls.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Death, taxes, Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>In the old days, those were the only certain things in life \u2014 or death \u2014 according to the river men who patrolled a thunderous Horseshoe Falls before it became somewhat tamed by hydro companies.<\/p>\n<p>During the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of suicide and accident victims plunged over the 52-metre world-famous cataract and none were known to have survived. Even three of the first six daredevils in protective barrels perished.<\/p>\n<p>Now meet a kinder, gentler Niagara Falls. In the past nine years, three men have miraculously survived the terrible fall \u2014 the only three in modern history known to live without a safety device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Death, taxes, Niagara Falls. In the old days, those were the only certain things in life \u2014 or death \u2014 according to the river men who patrolled a thunderous Horseshoe Falls before it became somewhat tamed by hydro companies. During the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of suicide and accident victims&#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":[74,3,2],"tags":[7467,1996,389,41,7468,1245,960],"class_list":["post-11161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-accident-victims","tag-cataract","tag-daredevils","tag-niagara-falls","tag-safety-device","tag-suicide","tag-toronto-star"],"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\/11161","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=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}