{"id":9876,"date":"2011-06-22T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2011-06-22T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:50:10","slug":"wire-walk-across-niagara-gorge-gets-political-support-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/wire-walk-across-niagara-gorge-gets-political-support-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Wire walk across Niagara Gorge gets political support in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.610cktb.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?ID=1445240\">610 CKTB<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tightrope walker who wants to walk a highwire across the Niagara Gorge now has considerible political backing in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Nike Wallenda was told he wouldn&#8217;t get a permit to perform the stunt because the Parks Commission on both sides of the border say stunting along the gorge or the river violates the Niagara Parks Act.<\/p>\n<p>But now, a political effort to make it happen has reached the state assembly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 610 CKTB: A tightrope walker who wants to walk a highwire across the Niagara Gorge now has considerible political backing in the U.S. Nike Wallenda was told he wouldn&#8217;t get a permit to perform the stunt because the Parks Commission on both sides of the border say stunting along the gorge or the river&#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":[5656,452,1874,5653,5654,5655,5657,5652],"class_list":["post-9876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-highwire","tag-niagara-gorge","tag-niagara-parks-act","tag-nike-wallenda","tag-parks-commission","tag-political-effort","tag-state-assembly","tag-tightrope-walker"],"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\/9876","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=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}