{"id":10395,"date":"2011-11-23T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:25:08","slug":"whale-of-a-police-escort-for-u-s-bound-killer-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/whale-of-a-police-escort-for-u-s-bound-killer-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale of a police escort for U.S.-bound killer whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2011\/11\/13\/whale_of_a_police_escort_for_usbound_killer_whale.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ikaika the killer whale was escorted out of the country in a procession worthy of a head of state.<\/p>\n<p>A witness said he counted at least 14 Niagara Regional Police cruisers, with lights flashing, two transport trucks and a crane slowly escorting the 9-year-old male orca from Marineland toward Hamilton airport on the QEW on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>John (Ringo) Beam, manager of Rempel Maximum Ice Services in Niagara Falls, said he joked to some of the orca\u2019s escorts that the procession from the amusement park around 9 p.m. seemed a tad excessive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018It\u2019s a whale, not a head of state,\u2019\u201d Beam said Sunday. \u201cIt was overkill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The departure of Ikaika, also called \u201cIke,\u201d comes at the end of a nasty custody dispute between the Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls and SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Ikaika the killer whale was escorted out of the country in a procession worthy of a head of state. A witness said he counted at least 14 Niagara Regional Police cruisers, with lights flashing, two transport trucks and a crane slowly escorting the 9-year-old male orca from Marineland toward Hamilton airport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[832,2],"tags":[1696,6451,4393,1930,6457,3083,5745,5746,6452,6449,1523,67,6455,41,551,1522,2998,6450,1123,6456,4171,617,6454,6453,1005,960,6440],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-amusement-park","tag-cranes","tag-florida","tag-hamilton","tag-hamilton-airport","tag-head-of-state","tag-ikaika","tag-ike","tag-john-beam","tag-killer-wahles","tag-killer-whale","tag-marineland","tag-marineland-amusement-park","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-regional-police","tag-orca-whale","tag-orca-whales","tag-orcas","tag-orlando","tag-police-cruisers","tag-police-escort","tag-qew","tag-rempel-maximum-ice-services","tag-ringo-beam","tag-seaworld","tag-toronto-star","tag-transport-trucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}