{"id":11326,"date":"2012-07-09T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11326"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:20:10","slug":"wallenda-sets-sights-on-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/wallenda-sets-sights-on-grand-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda sets sights on Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/06\/16\/wallenda-honoured-reveals-next-plans\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you do after successfully crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope with the whole world watching?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I slept all night for the first time in three months,&#8221; said Nik Wallenda, addressing media at Edgewaters Restaurant one day after cementing himself in the record books as the first person to directly cross over the thunderous falls on a wire.<\/p>\n<p>Wallenda was joined by Niagara Parks Commision (NPC) chair Janice Thomson and Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Michael Chan to unveil two plaques dedicated in Wallenda&#8217;s honour.<\/p>\n<p>Both plaques will be placed on a walkway leading to the White Water Walk. One commemorates Wallenda&#8217;s historic feat while the other depicts the history of stunting in Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: What do you do after successfully crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope with the whole world watching? &#8220;I slept all night for the first time in three months,&#8221; said Nik Wallenda, addressing media at Edgewaters Restaurant one day after cementing himself in the record books as the first person to&#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":[1278,3827,3070,3384,99,5673,255,7619,346,864],"class_list":["post-11326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-grand-canyon","tag-janice-thomson","tag-michael-chan","tag-minister-of-tourism","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-npc","tag-plaques","tag-tightrope","tag-white-water-walk"],"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\/11326","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=11326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}