{"id":17974,"date":"2016-08-19T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2016-08-19T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:03:30","slug":"niagara-falls-latest-natural-wonder-to-add-zip-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/niagara-falls-latest-natural-wonder-to-add-zip-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls latest natural wonder to add zip line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/niagara-falls-latest-natural-wonder-to-add-zip-line\/\">CBS News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls is the latest natural wonder to add a zip line, offering honeymooners and everyone else the chance to take an adrenaline-pumping plunge toward churning mist at speeds topping 40 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The elevated cable rides have evolved from a novel way to explore jungle canopies to almost necessary additions to lure tourists in the 21st century to established destinations. It\u2019s a trend that\u2019s exposed a rift between those who approach nature like contemplative monks and others who require an extreme, Indiana Jones-style experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t make these into museums. We have to keep the general public &#8211; the folks that these places have been set aside for &#8211; we have to keep them motivated to get out there,\u201d argued Tom Benson, co-founder and chief experience officer at WildPlay Element Parks, which built the Niagara Falls zip line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBS News: Niagara Falls is the latest natural wonder to add a zip line, offering honeymooners and everyone else the chance to take an adrenaline-pumping plunge toward churning mist at speeds topping 40 mph. The elevated cable rides have evolved from a novel way to explore jungle canopies to almost necessary additions to lure&#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":[16,29,2],"tags":[4909,1953,41,1143,11127,11126,7921],"class_list":["post-17974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-cbs-news","tag-natural-wonder","tag-niagara-falls","tag-plunge","tag-tom-benson","tag-wildplay-element-parks","tag-zip-line"],"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\/17974","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=17974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}