{"id":11331,"date":"2012-07-06T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11331"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:14:54","slug":"taking-on-niagara-falls-on-tightrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/taking-on-niagara-falls-on-tightrope\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking on Niagara Falls on tightrope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/world\/americas\/7088020\/Taking-on-Niagara-Falls-on-tightrope\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nik Wallenda can&#8217;t visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations.<\/p>\n<p>Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw.<\/p>\n<p>Now 33, the seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas, is ready to live out that childhood fantasy when he attempts on Friday to become the first person ever to walk a tightrope directly over the brink of Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It&#8217;s just natural,&#8221; Wallenda explained. &#8221;When I drive into a city, I&#8217;m always thinking, &#8216;It would be cool to do a walk there.&#8217; It&#8217;s just the way I think and always have.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stuff.co.nz: Nik Wallenda can&#8217;t visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw. Now 33, the seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas, is ready to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[74,26,2],"tags":[208,5674,41,5673,7637,346],"class_list":["post-11331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-brink","tag-flying-wallendas","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-stuff-co-nz","tag-tightrope"],"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\/11331","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=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}