{"id":16560,"date":"2013-12-31T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16560"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T20:56:32","slug":"tightrope-walker-who-crossed-niagara-falls-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/tightrope-walker-who-crossed-niagara-falls-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tightrope walker who crossed Niagara Falls dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/tightrope-walker-crossed-niagara-falls-dies-155945949.html\">Yahoo! News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The celebrated French tightrope walker and chair-balancer known as Henry&#8217;s, who balanced high above the Alps, Niagara Falls and for months over a supermarket in his hometown, has died&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At Niagara Falls in 1975, he balanced on a platform attached to a motorcycle that his friend rode across the cable over the Whirlpool Rapids, all while Rechatin&#8217;s wife hung from a pole he carried on his shoulders, according to the Niagara Falls Public Library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo! News: The celebrated French tightrope walker and chair-balancer known as Henry&#8217;s, who balanced high above the Alps, Niagara Falls and for months over a supermarket in his hometown, has died&#8230; At Niagara Falls in 1975, he balanced on a platform attached to a motorcycle that his friend rode across the cable over the&#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":[9470,867,9469,3859,41,920,9471,5652,2917,765],"class_list":["post-16560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-alps","tag-french","tag-henrys","tag-motorcycle","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-public-library","tag-supermarket","tag-tightrope-walker","tag-whirlpool-rapids","tag-yahoo"],"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\/16560","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=16560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}