{"id":7186,"date":"2009-08-31T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2009-08-29T09:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T13:16:47","slug":"niagara-riverman-ken-sloggett-dead-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/niagara-riverman-ken-sloggett-dead-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara riverman Ken Sloggett dead at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1720603\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it was anything even remotely connected with Niagara\u2019s daredevils, Riverman Ken Sloggett would be the first person I would turn to for information.<\/p>\n<p>He was so much more than just a news contact who had a wealth of information at his fingertips.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, he was a dear friend and we shared many memories over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Ken died Thursday morning at Greater Niagara General Hospital. He just turned 93 and his family had celebrated his birthday in the cafeteria at the hospital last Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A nice article about the man who helped retrieve people (both living and dead) from the Niagara River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: If it was anything even remotely connected with Niagara\u2019s daredevils, Riverman Ken Sloggett would be the first person I would turn to for information. He was so much more than just a news contact who had a wealth of information at his fingertips. Above all, he was a dear friend&#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":[3,2],"tags":[389,1965,1964,1966],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-daredevils","tag-greater-niagara-general-hospital","tag-ken-sloggett","tag-riverman"],"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\/7186","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=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}