{"id":1330,"date":"2007-03-01T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/01\/man-rescued-from-brink-of-horseshoe-falls\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T13:52:48","slug":"man-rescued-from-brink-of-horseshoe-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/man-rescued-from-brink-of-horseshoe-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rescued from brink of Horseshoe Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?610\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After standing at the brink of the Horseshoe Falls for more than an hour staring into the frigid water of the Niagara River, a &#8220;despondent&#8221; man changed his mind and co-operated with rescuers who pulled him to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters, Niagara Parks Police and paramedics rescued the unidentified man, who was discovered late Wednesday morning standing on an ice shelf about 50 metres from the brink of the falls.<\/p>\n<p>A passerby noticed the man on the wrong side of the retaining wall, south of Table Rock House at about 11:20 a.m., parks police Insp. Paul Forcier said. A police officer on a tether climbed over the wall and tried to talk to the man. But the man did not respond to the police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: After standing at the brink of the Horseshoe Falls for more than an hour staring into the frigid water of the Niagara River, a &#8220;despondent&#8221; man changed his mind and co-operated with rescuers who pulled him to safety. Firefighters, Niagara Parks Police and paramedics rescued the unidentified man, who was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1330","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}