{"id":7905,"date":"2026-10-24T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:23:20","slug":"annie-edson-taylor-became-the-first-person-to-go-over-niagara-falls-in-a-barrel-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7905","title":{"rendered":"Annie Edson Taylor Became the First Person to Go over Niagara Falls in a Barrel &#8211; 1901"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15270\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15270\" class=\"wp-image-15270 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Annie-Edson-Taylor-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Edson Taylor after the event\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Edson Taylor on the day of her event<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Annie Edson Taylor, celebrating her 63<sup>rd<\/sup> birthday, in 1901 became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.<\/strong> The teacher from Michigan sustained only minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Edson Taylor, celebrating her 63rd birthday, in 1901 became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. The teacher from Michigan sustained only minor injuries.<\/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":[4498,3172,3173,496,5461],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4498","tag-annie-edson-taylor","tag-barrel","tag-niagara-falls","tag-october-24","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\/7905","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=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29821,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/29821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}