{"id":5009,"date":"2013-06-21T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:46:09","slug":"walking-a-tightrope-across-the-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2013\/06\/21\/walking-a-tightrope-across-the-grand-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking a tightrope&#8230; across the Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are no strangers to stunts here at the L.A. County Fair. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2012\/entertainment\/EsmeraldasTC.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Esmeralda&#8217;s Traveling Circus <\/a>it&#8217;s common to see trapeze artists flying through the air and men juggling flaming bowling pins and hula hoops. But that doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t take notice when something fabulous happens outside of our circus zone!<br \/>\nThis Sunday, tightrope artist Nik Wallenda is performing the breath-taking stunt of walking a tightrope across the Grand Canyon.1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River. (That&#8217;s a height taller than the Empire State Building, folks.)\u00a0 No harness. Just guts and skill.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/snagplayer.video.dp.discovery.com\/827202\/snag-it-player.htm?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nYou can watch his act live on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, June 23 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are no strangers to stunts here at the L.A. County Fair. At Esmeralda&#8217;s Traveling Circus it&#8217;s common to see trapeze artists flying through the air and men juggling flaming bowling pins and hula hoops. But that doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t take notice when something fabulous happens outside of our circus zone! This Sunday, tightrope&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[295,642,875,1084,1160],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attractions","category-entertainment","tag-discovery-channel-nik-wallenda","tag-la-county-fair-esmeraldas-traveling-circus","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-stunts","tag-tightrope-walk-grand-canyon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}