{"id":3189,"date":"2008-07-08T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2008-07-08T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T12:38:47","slug":"daredevil-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/daredevil-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1546\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dean Sullivan, a 42-year-old daredevil from St. Catharines, rappelled from the Skylon Tower observation deck Monday. Wearing a harness, he hooked himself to a rope hanging from the top of the 158-metre tower and slid down face-first using his hands as a brake. It was a publicity stunt to promote the downtown Daredevil Days festival, Aug. 15 to 17.<\/p>\n<p>With only his hands to brake his fall, daredevil Dean Sullivan jumped face-first off the Skylon Tower Monday &#8211; attached to only a rope &#8211; and landed safely 520 feet on the ground below as hundreds of spectators cheered his success.<\/p>\n<p>The jump, which took place with no safety devices outside of the rope and the waist harness attached to it, occurred around noon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: I&#8217;ll have my pictures and video up later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Dean Sullivan, a 42-year-old daredevil from St. Catharines, rappelled from the Skylon Tower observation deck Monday. Wearing a harness, he hooked himself to a rope hanging from the top of the 158-metre tower and slid down face-first using his hands as a brake. It was a publicity stunt to promote&#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-3189","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\/3189","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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}