{"id":16394,"date":"2013-09-10T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16394"},"modified":"2013-09-10T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T11:55:00","slug":"a-courageous-rescue-is-at-the-heart-of-the-story-of-the-wreck-at-the-edge-of-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/a-courageous-rescue-is-at-the-heart-of-the-story-of-the-wreck-at-the-edge-of-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"A courageous rescue is at the heart of the story of the wreck at the edge of Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/technology\/courageous+rescue+heart+story+wreck+edge+Niagara+Falls\/8848262\/story.html\">Canada.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a hot August night and thousands of spectators were holding their breath as a young, wounded soldier shimmied out on a thick rope towards two men stranded in the raging Niagara River just above Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Large floodlights were quickly installed so everyone could watch the dangerous rescue attempt. William \u201cRed\u201d Hill, just back from the trenches of W.W. 1 where he had been shot, was being smacked by white water as he went hand-over-hand out to a run-away construction barge that &#8211; fortunately &#8211; ran aground before plunging over the precipice. Two Chicago construction workers onboard were practically paralyzed by fear and exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 95 years later, the barge still sits there teasing the imaginations of millions of Niagara Falls visitors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Canada.com: It was a hot August night and thousands of spectators were holding their breath as a young, wounded soldier shimmied out on a thick rope towards two men stranded in the raging Niagara River just above Horseshoe Falls. Large floodlights were quickly installed so everyone could watch the dangerous rescue attempt. William \u201cRed\u201d&#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":[3,2],"tags":[9190,1237,6442,41,144,9189,6431],"class_list":["post-16394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-barge","tag-canada","tag-floodlights","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-river","tag-rescue-attempt","tag-spectators"],"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\/16394","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=16394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}