{"id":11324,"date":"2012-07-06T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:15:12","slug":"nik-wallenda-successfully-completes-niagara-falls-highrope-walk-before-spectators-television-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/nik-wallenda-successfully-completes-niagara-falls-highrope-walk-before-spectators-television-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nik Wallenda successfully completes Niagara Falls highrope walk before spectators, television viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/06\/15\/nik-wallenda-begins-niagara-falls-tightrope-walk-before-spectators-television-viewers\/\">National Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emerging out of a cloud of mist, Nik Wallenda ran the last few steps to become the first man in more than a century to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire and singlehandedly bring the Wallenda name back into the public consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Although the walk was mostly free of theatrics, thirty metres from the finish, he bent down on one knee. As spectators gasped, suspecting he had fallen, he raised a fist in triumph.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd chanted his name as he cleared the last few meters to a raised lift, moving past the lights, cranes and news vans of what had become a multi-million dollar operation. \u201cWelcome to Canada, Nik!\u201d screamed a spectator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the National Post: Emerging out of a cloud of mist, Nik Wallenda ran the last few steps to become the first man in more than a century to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire and singlehandedly bring the Wallenda name back into the public consciousness. Although the walk was mostly free of theatrics,&#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":[6451,2368,41,5673,6431,7617,7616,6616],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-cranes","tag-crowd","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-spectators","tag-television-viewers","tag-welcome-to-canada","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\/11324","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=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}