{"id":11332,"date":"2012-07-06T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:08:58","slug":"daredevil-wallendas-tightrope-walk-over-niagara-falls-both-dicey-and-pricey-up-to-1-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/daredevil-wallendas-tightrope-walk-over-niagara-falls-both-dicey-and-pricey-up-to-1-3m\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil Wallenda&#8217;s tightrope walk over Niagara Falls both dicey and pricey: Up to $1.3M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an Associated Press story seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/daredevil-wallendas-tightrope-walk-over-niagara-falls-both-184016141.html;_ylc=X3oDMTEwNnBudXExBF9TAzIwMjM4Mjc1MjQEZW1haWxJZAMxMzM5NTM1MTYz\">Yahoo! News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walking a high wire over Niagara Falls isn&#8217;t only a dicey proposition, it turns out it&#8217;s pretty pricey, too.<\/p>\n<p>Daredevil Nik Wallenda estimates his history-making, U.S.-to-Canada walk by way of a cable strung over the brink will cost about $1.2 million to $1.3 million. That includes fabrication and installation of the custom-made steel wire, permits and security on both sides of the border, travel, and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>A deal with ABC to televise the event live during prime time Friday will offset some of his expenses, the 33-year-old Wallenda said. &#8220;But definitely not anywhere near all of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the tab seems to grow by the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an Associated Press story seen on Yahoo! News: Walking a high wire over Niagara Falls isn&#8217;t only a dicey proposition, it turns out it&#8217;s pretty pricey, too. Daredevil Nik Wallenda estimates his history-making, U.S.-to-Canada walk by way of a cable strung over the brink will cost about $1.2 million to $1.3 million. That includes&#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":[2827,3006,105,68,41,5673,7218,7638,346],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-abc","tag-border-travel","tag-daredevil","tag-marketing","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-prime-time","tag-steel-wire","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\/11332","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=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}