{"id":9990,"date":"2011-08-02T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9990"},"modified":"2011-08-02T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:34:00","slug":"crossing-niagara-the-return-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/crossing-niagara-the-return-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Niagara, the return journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crossing-niagara-the-return-journey-2327078.html\">The Independent<\/a> (in the UK):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It takes a cool head, impeccable balance, and plenty of self-confidence to walk unaided across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Unfortunately, for daredevil Nik Wallenda, it also requires formal permission from local bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old circus performer is bidding to become the first person in more than a century to perform the high-wire stunt, reviving a tradition of derring-do which stretches back to the destination\u2019s golden era. But first, he needs a rubber stamp from Canada\u2019s Niagara Parks Commission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article also has a nice history of the various daredevils over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Independent (in the UK): It takes a cool head, impeccable balance, and plenty of self-confidence to walk unaided across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Unfortunately, for daredevil Nik Wallenda, it also requires formal permission from local bureaucrats. The 32-year-old circus performer is bidding to become the first person in more than a century&#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_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":[74,3,2],"tags":[4694,105,389,5885,41,99,5673,255,5884,346],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bureaucrats","tag-daredevil","tag-daredevils","tag-high-wire-stunt","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-npc","tag-rubber-stamp","tag-tightrope"],"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\/9990","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=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}