{"id":2015,"date":"2007-08-30T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/30\/drive-the-falls-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T14:42:32","slug":"drive-the-falls-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/drive-the-falls-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Drive the Falls&#8217; challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?981\">GOLFmagic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Canadian entrepreneur is hoping to set up a contest in which the world&#8217;s longest drivers try to smash a golf ball over the Niagara River at the world famous Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Nickerson, a 61-year-old who claims he can hit a ball over 300 yards, aims to gather the world&#8217;s best strikers to attempt the feat for the chance to claim a huge cash bonus and raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p>Double major champion John Daly attempted the feat in April 2005 as part of a publicity stunt to promote the nearby Thundering Waters golf resort but narrowly failed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From GOLFmagic: A Canadian entrepreneur is hoping to set up a contest in which the world&#8217;s longest drivers try to smash a golf ball over the Niagara River at the world famous Horseshoe Falls. Gary Nickerson, a 61-year-old who claims he can hit a ball over 300 yards, aims to gather the world&#8217;s best strikers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/2015","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}