{"id":3013,"date":"2008-05-27T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2008-05-27T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:38:32","slug":"daredevil-charles-g-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/daredevil-charles-g-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil Charles G. Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a few days lat eon this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1456\">on Friday the News &#8211; Democrat &amp; Leader (out of Kentucky) had a religious article<\/a> that mentioned a daredevil named Charles G. Stephens who tried to go over Niagara Falls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daredevil Charles G. Stephens was one of many to attempt to survive a barrel ride over Niagara Falls, but his technique was probably the most interesting-and disastrous. He put an anvil in the barrel with him for ballast. In the end, the anvil served only to speed up his demise.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens was a victim of a bad plan to challenge an immense power, so his only claim to fame was the way he died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a few days lat eon this, but on Friday the News &#8211; Democrat &amp; Leader (out of Kentucky) had a religious article that mentioned a daredevil named Charles G. Stephens who tried to go over Niagara Falls: Daredevil Charles G. Stephens was one of many to attempt to survive a barrel ride over Niagara&#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-3013","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\/3013","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=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}