{"id":1758,"date":"2007-06-29T09:31:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/cochrane-walks-the-line\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:31:42","slug":"cochrane-walks-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/cochrane-walks-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochrane walks the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?820\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jay Cochrane hopes every step he takes on the high wire this summer will bring him closer to his two biggest goals: Raising half a billion dollars for children around the world and walking on a highwire over the brink of the falls.<\/p>\n<p>Each presents its own unique challenge.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Cochrane &#8211; in town to begin his twice-daily wirewalk performances Saturday &#8211; says he has raised $43 million for children in places he has performed his high-wire acts around the world, including $114,000 of it in Niagara Falls, where he walks in support of Tender Wishes.<\/p>\n<p>That means Cochrane needs to raise another $457 million in the next three or four years, when he expects to hang up his balancing pole and walking shoes for good.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings Cochrane to what could actually prove to be the bigger challenge: The 1,100-metre walk from Goat Island to the top of the Skylon Tower he hopes will be the pinnacle of his career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Jay Cochrane hopes every step he takes on the high wire this summer will bring him closer to his two biggest goals: Raising half a billion dollars for children around the world and walking on a highwire over the brink of the falls. Each presents its own unique challenge. To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1758","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}