{"id":3040,"date":"2016-03-30T12:28:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:28:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:28:56","slug":"daredevil-tightrope-walker-visits-shu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/daredevil-tightrope-walker-visits-shu\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil tightrope walker visits SHU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 March, Sheffield Hallam University played host to <strong>Sarah Rixham<\/strong>, a Sheffield-born tightrope walker and current world record holder for the longest female highline, for a special feat between two SHU buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Having travelled the world highlining some of the world&#8217;s most beautiful and risky locations, Sarah returned to Sheffield to help promote outdoor activities in the area, and to highline the best\u00a0place of all: <strong>SHU!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah said: &#8220;It\u2019s a very special experience for me to finally get to highline in the city my slackline journey started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below to see how she got on, it&#8217;s a nailbiter!<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheffieldstar\/videos\/10153306762578414\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 March, Sheffield Hallam University played host to Sarah Rixham, a Sheffield-born tightrope walker and current world record holder for the longest female highline, for a special feat between two SHU buildings. Having travelled the world highlining some of the world&#8217;s most beautiful and risky locations, Sarah returned to Sheffield to help promote outdoor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/daredevil-tightrope-walker-visits-shu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daredevil tightrope walker visits SHU<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3036,"featured_media":3045,"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,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-activities","tag-tne-1-april-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2016\/03\/tightrope.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-N2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}