{"id":2110,"date":"2007-09-25T08:53:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/25\/niagara-falls-tightrope-walker-sets-sights-on-the-brink\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T12:53:29","slug":"niagara-falls-tightrope-walker-sets-sights-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/niagara-falls-tightrope-walker-sets-sights-on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls tightrope walker sets sights on the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press has an article that has been picked up by a number of newspapers. This link is to USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For more than 40 years, visitors to this tourist town have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his place as Niagara Falls’ most famous funambulist.<\/p>\n

This summer, tourists also have been bending their necks for a flesh-and-blood contemporary. Twice each day, Jay Cochrane has traversed a wire between two 20-story towers set 1,000 feet (300 meters) apart, addressing onlookers with a showman’s skills honed over a 50-year career.<\/p>\n

“Welcome to Canada!” he announces from above as his electric blue costume’s sequins spark like flashbulbs in the sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article is a little out-dated, but still talks about Mr. Cochrane’s quest to walk over the falls.<\/p>\n

I still have the petition going, and if you haven’t signed it, please do.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to sign the petition!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Associated Press has an article that has been picked up by a number of newspapers. This link is to USA Today: For more than 40 years, visitors to this tourist town have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his place…<\/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-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/2110","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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}