{"id":89,"date":"2005-07-05T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-03T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T15:24:09","slug":"cochrane_postpones_skylon_wirewalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/cochrane_postpones_skylon_wirewalks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochrane Postpones Skylon Wirewalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the July 5, 2005 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NIAGARA FALLS &#8211; The waiting game continues for famed wirewalker Jay Cochrane&#8217;s date with the Skylon Tower.<br \/>\nCochrane, 61, is still fine-tuning his cable for the highly-anticipated walk, which was originally planned for July 1. It was pushed back to Monday, but over the long weekend Cochrane decided he still wasn&#8217;t ready.<br \/>\nA casino spokesman said the delay is due to the complexities of the support cables, which are winding through trees and other obstacles down below.<br \/>\nThe 609-metre walk will being on the roof of the Niagara Fallsview Casino hotel and end at the top of the Skylon Tower. Unlike most of Cochrane&#8217;s walks, this one is on a steep incline, beginning at 133 meters high and ending at 200 meters. It will be the longest and highest wirewalk ever attempted in Canada.<br \/>\nCochrane is expected to perform the walk 10 times this summer.<br \/>\nNo date has been rescheduled for the first attempt.<br \/>\nThe Skylon walk is just part of Cochrane&#8217;s heavy workload this summer. He also performs twice daily walks from the Niagara Fallsview Casino to the Hilton Hotel, 133 meters above Fallsview Boulevard.<br \/>\nCochrane has a reputation as a perfectionist who oversees every detail of his act ever since a poorly-constructed tower in 1965 caused him to fall 90 feet onto a concrete floor.<br \/>\nHis 1995 walk across the Qutang Gorge in China is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world&#8217;s longest at 700 meters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the July 5, 2005 edition of the Niagara Falls Review: NIAGARA FALLS &#8211; The waiting game continues for famed wirewalker Jay Cochrane&#8217;s date with the Skylon Tower. Cochrane, 61, is still fine-tuning his cable for the highly-anticipated walk, which was originally planned for July 1. It was pushed back to Monday, but over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/89","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}