{"id":20090,"date":"2017-06-16T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20090"},"modified":"2017-06-16T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:04:45","slug":"if-a-guy-can-do-it-a-girl-can-do-it-too-daredevil-hangs-by-teeth-from-chopper-over-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/16\/if-a-guy-can-do-it-a-girl-can-do-it-too-daredevil-hangs-by-teeth-from-chopper-over-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If a guy can do it, a girl can do it too\u2019: Daredevil hangs by teeth from chopper over Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/national\/98if+girl+daredevil+erendira+wallenda+hangs+teeth+from\/13449462\/story.html\">Canada.com<\/a> (including video):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A trapeze artist from a renowned family of daredevils hung by her teeth from a helicopter over Niagara Falls today.<\/p>\n<p>The stunt by aerialist Erendira Vasquez Wallenda comes on the fifth anniversary of her husband\u2019s tight-rope walk over the falls.<\/p>\n<p>According to organizers, the chopper hovered about 100 metres above the Horseshoe Falls. Wallenda dangled by her teeth for over 20 seconds, breaking her own husband\u2019s world record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt amazing. It was a little more windy than I expected it to be, but I just had to put myself back to my backyard and my training,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what she had to say to young women and girls, her message was one of persistence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever give up on your dreams,\u201d said the mother of three, who noted that she had to put her career as an aerialist on hold to raise her kids. \u201cIf a guy can do it, a girl can do it too. We just do it with a little more grace.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Canada.com (including video): A trapeze artist from a renowned family of daredevils hung by her teeth from a helicopter over Niagara Falls today. The stunt by aerialist Erendira Vasquez Wallenda comes on the fifth anniversary of her husband\u2019s tight-rope walk over the falls. According to organizers, the chopper hovered about 100 metres above the&#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":[74,2],"tags":[6625,1237,12545,12520,105,12547,12419,423,142,12546,12420],"class_list":["post-20090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-aerialist","tag-canada","tag-chopper","tag-dangle","tag-daredevil","tag-dream","tag-erendira-vasquez-wallenda","tag-helicopter","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-husband","tag-teeth"],"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\/20090","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=20090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20091,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20090\/revisions\/20091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}