{"id":7669,"date":"2009-11-14T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2009-11-14T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T16:23:33","slug":"sullivan-laying-low-after-latest-falls-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/14\/sullivan-laying-low-after-latest-falls-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan laying low after latest falls stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2176029\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daredevil Dean Sullivan is back in town.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan filmed two stunts this month in which he used his face-first rappelling technique to jump from the top of the Niagara gorge, near the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Wednesday&#8217;s) was great. It was awesome. It was fantastic. It took me a couple seconds,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was one step off the top and it was quick to the bottom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An earlier Nov. 3 jump wasn&#8217;t as fast because he stopped a couple times on the way down, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, a 43-year-old British Columbia man, made a name for himself by descending from high places like cliffs, ravines or tall buildings. He wears a harness around his waist and is connected to a rope that&#8217;s secured at the top. He uses his hands as brakes to stop himself before hitting the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Parks Police say they&#8217;re aware of the recent stunts, but aren&#8217;t rushing to round anyone up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Daredevil Dean Sullivan is back in town. Sullivan filmed two stunts this month in which he used his face-first rappelling technique to jump from the top of the Niagara gorge, near the Horseshoe Falls. &#8220;(Wednesday&#8217;s) was great. It was awesome. It was fantastic. It took me a couple seconds,&#8221; he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":[74,2],"tags":[105,200,1652,452,132,1791,374],"class_list":["post-7669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-daredevil","tag-dean-sullivan","tag-gorge","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks","tag-niagara-parks-police","tag-table-rock"],"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\/7669","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=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7671,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}