{"id":5667,"date":"2026-06-30T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:52:55","slug":"charles-blondin-walked-across-niagara-falls-on-a-tightrope-in-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5667","title":{"rendered":"Charles Blondin Walked across Niagara Falls on a Tightrope in 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14756\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14756\" class=\"wp-image-14756 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Charles-Blondin-136x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Blondin \" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Blondin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1859<\/strong>. Approximately 25,000 people watched the five-minute walk. On other occasions he walked across the falls on a tightrope pushing a wheelbarrow or on stilts. Idea: Children\u00a0could draw a line on the playground. They could pretend the line was a tightrope. They could see if they could walk the line on stilts. Older children could read more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-daredevil-of-niagara-falls-110492884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blondin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1859. Approximately 25,000 people watched the five-minute walk. On other occasions he walked across the falls on a tightrope pushing a wheelbarrow or on stilts. Idea: Children\u00a0could draw a line on the playground. They could pretend the line was a tightrope. They could see if <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5667' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5498,495,5671,496,497],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5498","tag-charles-blondin","tag-june-30","tag-niagara-falls","tag-tightrope","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29525,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/29525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}