{"id":92,"date":"2005-07-08T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T12:04:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-03T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T15:23:18","slug":"preparing_for_the_big_skywalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/preparing_for_the_big_skywalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the big skywalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/05\/cochrane_postpones_skylon_wirewalks\">Niagara Falls Review reported<\/a> a few days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php?s=Jay+Cochrane&amp;sentence=AND&amp;submit=Search\">Jay Cochrane<\/a> has postponed the big skywalk from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?59\">Fallsview Casino<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?8\">Skylon Tower<\/a> a couple of times. As best we can see, he&#8217;s been adjusting the support wires quite a bit. At one point a week or so ago, there were wires hanging down over the trees ending up in Queen Victoria Park. Then the wires were gone a few days later. Well, they&#8217;re back and they look like they will be staying there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/cochrane_wiring_qvp.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Wires in Queen Victoria Park\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fenced in concrete support\/anchors in Queen Victoria Park<\/em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/cochrane_wiring_support.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Concrete supports in Queen Victoria Park\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Close-up of the support setup.<br \/>\nThe wire is wrapped around the concrete blocks and then cinched tight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/cochrane_wiring_hand.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Size of a support wire\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Size of the support wire in relation to Chris&#8217; hand<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Niagara Falls Review reported a few days ago, Jay Cochrane has postponed the big skywalk from the Fallsview Casino to the Skylon Tower a couple of times. As best we can see, he&#8217;s been adjusting the support wires quite a bit. At one point a week or so ago, there were wires hanging&#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-92","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\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}