{"id":20027,"date":"2017-06-09T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20027"},"modified":"2017-06-09T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:24:18","slug":"meet-the-woman-planning-to-hang-by-her-teeth-over-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/09\/meet-the-woman-planning-to-hang-by-her-teeth-over-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Woman Planning to Hang by Her Teeth over Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/this-woman-is-going-to-hang-by-her-teeth-over-niagara-falls\">Vice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls played host to famed circus performer Nik Wallenda who walked across the natural phenomenon on a high-wire passing between the US into Canada just short of five years ago. Now, on the anniversary of his performance, his wife Erendira Vasquez Wallenda will attempt a world recording-breaking feat as she hangs from a helicopter above the falls on June 15\u2014by her teeth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I come from eight generations of the circus on my mom&#8217;s side, and seven generations on my father&#8217;s side, so this has been something that&#8217;s been in my life for a long time,&#8221; Erendira, who is an aerialist, told VICE. &#8220;I started performing when I was five years old\u2014I&#8217;ve been around people doing this sort of thing my entire life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to Erendira to ask her why in the world someone would want to hang by their teeth over the Falls and about what it&#8217;s like to come from a long hereditary line of circus performers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Vice: Niagara Falls played host to famed circus performer Nik Wallenda who walked across the natural phenomenon on a high-wire passing between the US into Canada just short of five years ago. Now, on the anniversary of his performance, his wife Erendira Vasquez Wallenda will attempt a world recording-breaking feat as she hangs from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[74],"tags":[6625,4191,12507,423,7347,5673,6425,12420,12508],"class_list":["post-20027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","tag-aerialist","tag-circus","tag-ernedira-vasquez-wallenda","tag-helicopter","tag-june-15","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-performer","tag-teeth","tag-vice"],"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\/20027","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=20027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20028,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions\/20028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}