{"id":8134,"date":"2010-02-27T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2010-02-27T11:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:33:33","slug":"see-the-sword-and-then-swallow-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/see-the-sword-and-then-swallow-it\/","title":{"rendered":"See the sword &#8212; and then swallow it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2469609\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not a holiday yet, but sword swallowers have made today their own.<\/p>\n<p>World Sword Swallowers Day will see performers send steel down the hatch at more than a dozen Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not museums throughout the world, including Clifton Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s Vanessa Neil does the deed at 2:27 today, symbolic of Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the second straight year a female sword swallower &#8212; a small portion of an already slim group of professionals &#8212; appears at Ripley&#8217;s in Niagara Falls. Last year saw Rochester, N.Y.&#8217;s Riley Schillaci perform on a bitterly cold day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It&#8217;s not a holiday yet, but sword swallowers have made today their own. World Sword Swallowers Day will see performers send steel down the hatch at more than a dozen Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not museums throughout the world, including Clifton Hill. Toronto&#8217;s Vanessa Neil does the deed at 2:27&#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_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":[16,26,2],"tags":[59,1053,414,708,3010,3011],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-clifton-hill","tag-riley-schillaci","tag-ripleys","tag-ripleys-believe-it-or-not","tag-sword-swallers","tag-vanessa-neil"],"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\/8134","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=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}