{"id":19282,"date":"2017-04-05T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19282"},"modified":"2017-04-03T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:52:13","slug":"daredevil-seeks-statue-for-red-hill-in-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/daredevil-seeks-statue-for-red-hill-in-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil seeks statue for Red Hill in Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/03\/16\/daredevil-seeks-statue-for-red-hill-in-falls\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the last men to go over the falls in a barrel wants to see a proper memorial for one of Niagara Falls\u2019 most legendary figures.<\/p>\n<p>Peter DeBernardi, who survived a 1989 trip over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel he shared with Jeffrey Petkovich, is trying to raise awareness for a possible statue of famed river man Red Hill Sr. somewhere along the Niagara Parkway.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hill Sr., who died in 1942, was responsible for saving 28 lives and retrieving 177 bodies from the Niagara River. He was also a renowned daredevil, surviving five trips through the Niagara Gorge rapids in assorted barrels.<\/p>\n<p>Hill is synonymous with Niagara Falls lore, such as the time he saved a boy after the ice bridge broke in 1912. In those days, tourists would venture out onto the ice that formed at the base of the falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--Ads1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: One of the last men to go over the falls in a barrel wants to see a proper memorial for one of Niagara Falls\u2019 most legendary figures. Peter DeBernardi, who survived a 1989 trip over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel he shared with Jeffrey Petkovich, is trying to raise&#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_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":[12145,376,105,142,1008,12143,1139,452,7229,5598,12144],"class_list":["post-19282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-12145","tag-barrel","tag-daredevil","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-ice-bridge","tag-jeffrey-petkovich","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-peter-debernardi","tag-rapids","tag-red-hill-sr"],"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\/19282","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=19282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19285,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19282\/revisions\/19285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}