{"id":18548,"date":"2017-01-11T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18548"},"modified":"2017-01-11T06:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:17:24","slug":"daredevilry-rescue-and-the-family-that-couldnt-escape-the-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/daredevilry-rescue-and-the-family-that-couldnt-escape-the-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevilry, Rescue And The Family That Couldn&#8217;t Escape The Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WBFO, the NPR affiliate in Buffalo, had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onlyagame\/2017\/01\/06\/niagara-falls-michael-clarkson-daredevils\">a short segment recently about Niagara Falls and the heroics of Red Hill Sr.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Clarkson grew up along the banks of the Niagara River. As a young reporter, he collected stories of people who challenged the river\u2019s dangerous 165-foot Falls, including the first three to do so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson also heard of a heroic river man and his family, whose tales are interwoven with the history of daredevilry and rescue at the Falls. Here&#8217;s their story.<\/p>\n<p>William \u201cRed\u201d Hill Sr. was born on Oct. 27, 1887 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His career saving lives began when he carried his 4-year-old sister, Cora, out of their family\u2019s burning home&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBFO, the NPR affiliate in Buffalo, had a short segment recently about Niagara Falls and the heroics of Red Hill Sr.: Michael Clarkson grew up along the banks of the Niagara River. As a young reporter, he collected stories of people who challenged the river\u2019s dangerous 165-foot Falls, including the first three to do so&#8230;&#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":[74,3,2],"tags":[105,11640,11297,41,144,4311,11642,2121,815,11641],"class_list":["post-18548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-daredevil","tag-heroic","tag-michael-clarkson","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-river","tag-npr","tag-red-hill","tag-rescue","tag-wbfo","tag-william-red-hill-sr"],"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\/18548","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=18548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18549,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions\/18549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}