{"id":11240,"date":"2012-06-11T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2014-02-15T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:05:18","slug":"wallenda-still-working-on-wire-logistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/11\/wallenda-still-working-on-wire-logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda still working on wire logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfpress.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/06\/06\/19845891.html\">London Free Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nik Wallenda is set to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a wire in eight days, but first he has to figure out how he&#8217;s going to get the wire from one side of the Niagara River to the other.<\/p>\n<p>The logistics of stringing the 550-metre wire from Goat Island in the U.S. to Table Rock in Canada are proving to be more difficult than Wallenda first thought.<\/p>\n<p>To get the 18-tonne wire across the gorge, a guide line first has to be moved from one side to the other. The plan was originally to use a helicopter for the task.<\/p>\n<p>But Niagara Helicopters has had to bow out because it wasn&#8217;t given enough time to get the paperwork it needed, said Anna Pierce, the company&#8217;s vice-president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WGRZ Channel 2in Buffalo &#8211; Wallenda Walk: With Nine Days Left, New Questions Surface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Free Press: Nik Wallenda is set to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a wire in eight days, but first he has to figure out how he&#8217;s going to get the wire from one side of the Niagara River to the other. The logistics of stringing the 550-metre wire from Goat Island&#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":[651,423,3780,452,1258,144,5673,7548,374],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-goat-island","tag-helicopter","tag-london-free-press","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-helicopters","tag-niagara-river","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-paperwork","tag-table-rock"],"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\/11240","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=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}