{"id":20099,"date":"2017-06-16T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20099"},"modified":"2017-06-16T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:12:26","slug":"would-you-go-over-the-falls-in-this-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/16\/would-you-go-over-the-falls-in-this-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you go over the Falls in this barrel?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day when out for a walk I went past Henri’s Motel<\/a>. Out front they have a white barrel that is painted with the words:<\/p>\n

The original
\nHill’s Barrel
\nJuly 1949<\/p>\n

I supposed they are referring to Major Lloyd Hill who went over the Falls in a barrel on July 30, 1949. NiagaraFallsInfo.com has the following information:<\/p>\n

On July 30th 1949, Major Lloyd Hill, using a 650 pound barrel, successfully navigated the Whirlpool Rapids. Hill became stranded in the Whirlpool and had to be rescued by the City of Niagara Falls Fire Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know what all he had inside the barrel, but without any padding it sure looks like you’d be tossed around quite a bit!<\/p>\n

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The other day when out for a walk I went past Henri’s Motel. Out front they have a white barrel that is painted with the words: The original Hill’s Barrel July 1949 I supposed they are referring to Major Lloyd Hill who went over the Falls in a barrel on July 30, 1949. NiagaraFallsInfo.com has…<\/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":[74,3],"tags":[376,712,12556,12555,12557,1129,2121,126,2917],"class_list":["post-20099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-barrel","tag-fire-department","tag-henris-motel","tag-lloyd-hill","tag-major-lloyd-hill","tag-over-the-falls","tag-rescue","tag-whirlpool","tag-whirlpool-rapids"],"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\/20099","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=20099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20103,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099\/revisions\/20103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}