{"id":2331,"date":"2019-09-14T18:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2019-09-14T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T23:01:20","slug":"david-blaine-to-return-to-chattanooga-to-drink-glass-of-unboiled-tap-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2019\/09\/14\/david-blaine-to-return-to-chattanooga-to-drink-glass-of-unboiled-tap-water\/","title":{"rendered":"David Blaine to return to Chattanooga to drink glass of unboiled tap water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After performing last year at Chattanooga&#8217;s Tivoli Theatre, street magician and death-defying endurance artist David Blaine said that he would be making a surprise return to Chattanooga this weekend to perform one of the riskiest stunts of his career: to drink an entire glass of tap water that has not been boiled, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/weather\/topstories\/chattanooga-water-main-break-boil-advisory-remains-in-effect-saturday\/ar-AAHimuf\">Tennessee American Water&#8217;s precautionary &#8220;boil water advisory&#8221;<\/a> in effect after a major water main had broken and was repaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;David is <em>off the chain<\/em> with this stunt,&#8221; said local fan Wendy Tudanna. &#8220;This is a guy who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/news\/a52124\/david-blaine-shot\/\">shot himself in the mouth<\/a> on purpose, catching the bullet in a metal cup held between his teeth. He was suspended over the River Thames for 44 days in a Plexiglas case. But I&#8217;m genuinely afraid for him with this stunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After performing last year at Chattanooga&#8217;s Tivoli Theatre, street magician and death-defying endurance artist David Blaine said that he would be making a surprise return to Chattanooga this weekend to perform one of the riskiest stunts of his career: to drink an entire glass of tap water that has not been boiled, despite Tennessee American Water&#8217;s precautionary &#8220;boil water advisory&#8221; in effect after a major water main had broken and was repaired. &#8220;David is off the chain with this stunt,&#8221; said local fan Wendy Tudanna. &#8220;This is a guy who shot himself in the mouth on purpose, catching the bullet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}