{"id":2903,"date":"2008-04-30T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/prince-of-the-air-grounded-by-security-costs\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T14:43:06","slug":"prince-of-the-air-grounded-by-security-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/prince-of-the-air-grounded-by-security-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Prince of the Air&#8217; grounded by security costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1401\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The $40,000 cost of hiring police to close Clifton Hill every day \u00e2\u20ac\u0153destroyed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d plans to bring tightrope walker Jay Cochrane back to Niagara Falls this summer, says Coun. Wayne Thomson, a go-between for Cochrane and tourism operators.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism operators had been making arrangements to bring Cochrane, &#8220;The Prince of the Air&#8221; back to Niagara Falls this summer, this time to perform on Clifton Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was going exceptionally well. In the final analysis, it came down to the police costs which were in the area of $40,000 for the summer,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Thomson said in an interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls Tourism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website says Cochrane \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is expected to return to Niagara Falls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this summer. His plans were to walk a wire between the Sheraton-on-the-Falls hotel, at the corner of Falls Avenue and Clifton Hill, to a platform erected on the south side of Clifton Hill on land owned by HOCO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t forget to sign the petition!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?868\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/images\/jaycochrane_large.gif?w=640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The $40,000 cost of hiring police to close Clifton Hill every day \u00e2\u20ac\u0153destroyed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d plans to bring tightrope walker Jay Cochrane back to Niagara Falls this summer, says Coun. Wayne Thomson, a go-between for Cochrane and tourism operators. Tourism operators had been making arrangements to bring Cochrane, &#8220;The Prince of the&#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-2903","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\/2903","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=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}