{"id":17349,"date":"2016-03-10T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17349"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:16:39","slug":"zavitz-wirewalker-hardy-amazed-19th-century-crowds-in-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/10\/zavitz-wirewalker-hardy-amazed-19th-century-crowds-in-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Zavitz: Wirewalker Hardy amazed 19th century crowds in Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/03\/04\/zavitz-wirewalker-hardy-amazed-19th-century-crowds-in-niagara\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>James Hardy has a special place in the history of Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>He was the final official participant in a 19th century phenomenon often referred to as the great age of Niagara tightrope artists \u2014 something that captured much of the world\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>That \u201cage\u201d began in 1859 when the innovative showman Jean Francois Gravelet, who used the stage name Blondin, demonstrated unbelievable skill and daring on a rope during a series of performances high over the Niagara River Gorge.<\/p>\n<p>Widely acclaimed, he set a precedent. Consequently, during the years following Blondin a number of other high-wire artists came here to present similar shows.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-seven years after Blondin, it was Hardy\u2019s turn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: James Hardy has a special place in the history of Niagara Falls. He was the final official participant in a 19th century phenomenon often referred to as the great age of Niagara tightrope artists \u2014 something that captured much of the world\u2019s attention. That \u201cage\u201d began in 1859 when 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],"tags":[296,105,10651,738,10650,1650,41,1139,346],"class_list":["post-17349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-blondin","tag-daredevil","tag-daring","tag-history","tag-james-hardy","tag-jean-francois-gravelet","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-tightrope"],"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\/17349","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=17349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}