{"id":20767,"date":"2017-08-25T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20767"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:19:54","slug":"why-canton-man-tried-to-cheat-death-twice-at-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/why-canton-man-tried-to-cheat-death-twice-at-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Canton man tried to cheat death twice at Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/wayne-county\/2017\/08\/24\/canton-man-niagara-falls-cheats-death\/104931426\/\">Detroit News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Kirk Jones waded into the rapids, the biggest danger wasn\u2019t the 7-foot-long snake in his hands. It was the 170-foot waterfalls several hundred yards downriver.<\/p>\n<p>He knew the peril all too well. He had jumped over the falls in 2003, the first person to survive such a drop without a safety device.<\/p>\n<p>Here he was, 14 years later, back at the brink, once again floating through a swirling mist toward the growing roar of the cascade.<\/p>\n<p>Once again his friends would ask why. What makes a man leap off a precipice, rolling the dice with his life, not once but twice?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho jumps off Niagara Falls?\u201d asked Russ Chiado, a longtime friend from Canton. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing what we do in this world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Detroit News: When Kirk Jones waded into the rapids, the biggest danger wasn\u2019t the 7-foot-long snake in his hands. It was the 170-foot waterfalls several hundred yards downriver. He knew the peril all too well. He had jumped over the falls in 2003, the first person to survive such a drop without a&#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":[12984,12980,12981,1141,12550,41,12983,12982],"class_list":["post-20767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-canton","tag-detroit-news","tag-drop","tag-jump","tag-kirk-jones","tag-niagara-falls","tag-russ-chiado","tag-snake"],"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\/20767","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=20767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20768,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20767\/revisions\/20768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}