{"id":3587,"date":"2008-08-11T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2008-08-16T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T14:37:51","slug":"1918-rescue-at-the-brink-of-the-falls-heralded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/1918-rescue-at-the-brink-of-the-falls-heralded\/","title":{"rendered":"1918 rescue at the brink of the falls heralded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1647\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an age long before cell phones, word spread quickly, and soon, hundreds of people were focused on a spot about 850 yards from the Niagara River shore, about a half-mile from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back were two men from Buffalo, perched atop a scow they prayed would stay lodged on rocks in the roiling rapids.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety years ago Thursday, Niagara Falls, an area where showmen and stuntmen staged many a spectacle, witnessed one of its most memorable dramas.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 7, 1918, rescue of James<\/p>\n<p>H. Harris and Gustave F. Lofberg from a barge that, to this day, remains a curiosity for tourists also cemented the legend of William \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Red\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hill Sr. as probably the greatest of the Niagara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rivermen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: In an age long before cell phones, word spread quickly, and soon, hundreds of people were focused on a spot about 850 yards from the Niagara River shore, about a half-mile from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. Looking back were two men from Buffalo, perched atop a scow they prayed&#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-3587","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\/3587","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=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}