{"id":6862,"date":"2009-07-07T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2014-02-15T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T15:08:00","slug":"the-great-blondin-crosses-niagara-falls-on-a-tightrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/the-great-blondin-crosses-niagara-falls-on-a-tightrope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/today-in-history-june-30\/\">June 30 I posted<\/a> about one of Blondin&#8217;s trips across the gorge. The Nashua Telegraph has some more detailed information (more than the blurb I put below):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dressed in pink tights and a yellow tunic, world-class funambulist Jean-Francois Gravelet (better known as The Great Blondin due to his fair hair) became the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope today in 1859. This extraordinary feat took him all of five minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 30 I posted about one of Blondin&#8217;s trips across the gorge. The Nashua Telegraph has some more detailed information (more than the blurb I put below): Dressed in pink tights and a yellow tunic, world-class funambulist Jean-Francois Gravelet (better known as The Great Blondin due to his fair hair) became the first person&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[74,3,2],"tags":[296,1651,1650,1684,346],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-blondin","tag-funambulist","tag-jean-francois-gravelet","tag-nashua-telegraph","tag-tightrope"],"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\/6862","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}