{"id":11263,"date":"2012-06-13T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:25:59","slug":"tightrope-walker-nik-wallendas-plan-to-conquer-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/tightrope-walker-nik-wallendas-plan-to-conquer-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda\u2019s plan to conquer Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/06\/09\/tightrope_walker_nik_wallendas_plan_to_conquer_niagara_falls.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wallenda can\u2019t afford to make a similar stumble this Friday during his highest-profile act yet: walking 550 metres across Niagara Falls, on a wire 60 metres above the gorge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unique because it\u2019s the longest unsupported or unstabilized cable that anyone\u2019s put up in the history of wire-walking,\u201d Wallenda says.<\/p>\n<p>And if the much-publicized stunt is a success, he\u2019ll also be the first person to cross right over the falls.<\/p>\n<p>A number of daredevils have walked across the gorge further downstream, but no one has gone directly above the falls themselves. It has been more than 100 years since anyone has even attempted a crossing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Wallenda can\u2019t afford to make a similar stumble this Friday during his highest-profile act yet: walking 550 metres across Niagara Falls, on a wire 60 metres above the gorge. \u201cThis is unique because it\u2019s the longest unsupported or unstabilized cable that anyone\u2019s put up in the history of wire-walking,\u201d Wallenda says&#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":[7184,389,41,5673,960,7573],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-cable","tag-daredevils","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-toronto-star","tag-wire-walking"],"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\/11263","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=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}