{"id":9900,"date":"2011-07-11T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9900"},"modified":"2011-07-10T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T01:13:45","slug":"skywalker-petitions-to-cross-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/skywalker-petitions-to-cross-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Skywalker petitions to cross Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/ontario\/skywalker-petitions-to-cross-niagara-falls\/article2087053\/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&amp;utm_source=Ontario&amp;utm_content=2087053\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nik Wallenda walked his first tightrope when he was 2.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s bicycled 45 metres across a wire suspended 20 storeys high.<\/p>\n<p>He even proposed to his wife on a high wire.<\/p>\n<p>But the famed funambulist\u2019s most hair-raising feat yet may be a political one: persuading g the embattled government agency overseeing Canada\u2019s top tourist attraction to relax a century-old ban on stunts and green-light his life-long dream of walking across Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: Nik Wallenda walked his first tightrope when he was 2. He\u2019s bicycled 45 metres across a wire suspended 20 storeys high. He even proposed to his wife on a high wire. But the famed funambulist\u2019s most hair-raising feat yet may be a political one: persuading g the embattled government agency&#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":[1237,1651,510,2541,3826,41,5673,5720,5722,346,1989,5721],"class_list":["post-9900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-canada","tag-funambulist","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-government-agency","tag-high-wire","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-proposed","tag-skywalker","tag-tightrope","tag-tourist-attraction","tag-wife"],"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\/9900","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=9900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}