{"id":8137,"date":"2010-03-01T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:14:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:14:30","slug":"tough-act-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/tough-act-to-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough act to swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2470945\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Think your line of work got hurt in the recession? Try sword swallowing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last few years have been tough, economically. People aren&#8217;t going to pay $1,000 to have a sword swallower at their kids&#8217; birthdays,&#8221; said Vanessa Neil, who shocked a Niagara Falls crowd Saturday when she downed a 24-inch sword in mere seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Does anyone want to hold it now? You can see what I had for lunch,&#8221; Neil said, joking with a crowd at the Ripley&#8217;s museum on Clifton Hill after withdrawing the stainless steel weapon from her throat.<\/p>\n<p>Her performance was part of World Sword Swallowers Day which was marked by similar performances at Ripley&#8217;s venues around the world at 2:27 p.m., to coincide with Feb. 27&#8217;s date -2- 27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Think your line of work got hurt in the recession? Try sword swallowing. &#8220;The last few years have been tough, economically. People aren&#8217;t going to pay $1,000 to have a sword swallower at their kids&#8217; birthdays,&#8221; said Vanessa Neil, who shocked a Niagara Falls crowd Saturday when she downed a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[26,2],"tags":[59,414,1012,3014,3013,3012,3011],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-clifton-hill","tag-ripleys","tag-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-museum","tag-stainless-steel","tag-sword-swallower","tag-sword-swallowers","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\/8137","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=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}