{"id":15963,"date":"2013-03-15T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=15963"},"modified":"2013-03-12T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T23:18:45","slug":"the-man-behind-nik-wallenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/15\/the-man-behind-nik-wallenda\/","title":{"rendered":"The man behind Nik Wallenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtampabay.com\/story\/21200072\/2013\/02\/14\/the-man-behind-nik-wallenda\">myFox Tampa Bay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Nik Wallenda walked a high wire across Niagara Falls last summer, no one was watching more closely than Terry Troffer. He&#8217;s in charge of making sure that the wire, and everything else, is set up correctly and in good repair.<\/p>\n<p>Troffer also happens to be Nik Wallenda&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My father oversees every step of the way,&#8221; explained Wallenda, who&#8217;s planning to walk a cable over The Grand Canyon this summer. &#8220;My father is there to watch my back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From myFox Tampa Bay: When Nik Wallenda walked a high wire across Niagara Falls last summer, no one was watching more closely than Terry Troffer. He&#8217;s in charge of making sure that the wire, and everything else, is set up correctly and in good repair. Troffer also happens to be Nik Wallenda&#8217;s father. &#8220;My father&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,2],"tags":[1278,8679,41,5673],"class_list":["post-15963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-grand-canyon","tag-myfox-tampa-bay","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963","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=15963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}