{"id":11338,"date":"2012-07-09T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11338"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:18:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:18:32","slug":"nik-wallendas-tightrope-walk-across-niagara-falls-makes-waves-even-in-this-city-of-stunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/nik-wallendas-tightrope-walk-across-niagara-falls-makes-waves-even-in-this-city-of-stunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nik Wallenda\u2019s Tightrope Walk Across Niagara Falls Makes Waves Even In This City Of Stunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/352366\/20120614\/nik-wallenda-tightrope-walk-niagara-falls.htm\">IBTraveler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officials banned stuntmen and daredevils from turning Niagara Falls into a circus over a century ago, but on Friday night, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda became the first of his generation to tackle the world&#8217;s most famous falls &#8212; and he did so on prime time TV with official support.<\/p>\n<p>The daredevil remained unnaturally calm during the 25-minute journey Friday, fighting mist and fog on a wet rope as he tiptoed into the record books, becoming the first person ever to walk directly across the imposing icon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IBTraveler: Officials banned stuntmen and daredevils from turning Niagara Falls into a circus over a century ago, but on Friday night, tightrope walker Nik Wallenda became the first of his generation to tackle the world&#8217;s most famous falls &#8212; and he did so on prime time TV with official support. The daredevil remained unnaturally&#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":[105,4882,41,5673,7644,7645,5652],"class_list":["post-11338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-daredevil","tag-friday-night","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-prime-time-tv","tag-record-books","tag-tightrope-walker"],"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\/11338","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=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}