{"id":16235,"date":"2013-07-09T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:41:16","slug":"jumpers-climbers-fliers-and-more-great-daredevils-of-the-last-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/jumpers-climbers-fliers-and-more-great-daredevils-of-the-last-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumpers, climbers, fliers and more: Great daredevils of the last 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/06\/23\/19075923-jumpers-climbers-fliers-and-more-great-daredevils-of-the-last-100-years\">NBCNews.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Sunday, daredevil Nik\u00a0Wallenda\u00a0&#8212; who famously traversed Niagara Falls on a tightrope last year &#8212; will attempt another extreme balancing act: walking a tightrope over the Grand Canyon. Wallenda\u00a0carries on a family tradition with his tricks &#8212; he is the seventh generation of the &#8220;Great Wallendas,&#8221; a stunt-performing family. And he calls to mind daredevils past, who have shocked the public for more than 100 years with their daring feats (and failures.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NBCNews.com: This Sunday, daredevil Nik\u00a0Wallenda\u00a0&#8212; who famously traversed Niagara Falls on a tightrope last year &#8212; will attempt another extreme balancing act: walking a tightrope over the Grand Canyon. Wallenda\u00a0carries on a family tradition with his tricks &#8212; he is the seventh generation of the &#8220;Great Wallendas,&#8221; a stunt-performing family. And he calls to&#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_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":[74,3,2],"tags":[6600,105,7581,9002,1278,41,5673,7283],"class_list":["post-16235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-balancing-act","tag-daredevil","tag-family-tradition","tag-fliers","tag-grand-canyon","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-seventh-generation"],"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\/16235","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=16235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}