{"id":11655,"date":"2012-08-24T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:30:10","slug":"marineland-at-niagara-falls-attraction-its-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/marineland-at-niagara-falls-attraction-its-business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland: At Niagara Falls attraction, it\u2019s business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2012\/08\/22\/marineland_at_niagara_falls_attraction_its_business_as_usual.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crowd before her roars as Buttercup waddles onto the stage on this late Wednesday afternoon at Marineland\u2019s King Waldorf\u2019s Stadium. The centre of attention, the 900-kilogram walrus twists around and wags her flippers at her trainer\u2019s call, sending people in the nearly packed bleachers clapping and cheering even louder for more.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a protest that saw some 400 people gather outside its gates just days before, business at the embattled Niagara Falls tourist spot was booming, as sunscreen-covered children and their parents flocked toward amusement rides and marine attractions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: The crowd before her roars as Buttercup waddles onto the stage on this late Wednesday afternoon at Marineland\u2019s King Waldorf\u2019s Stadium. The centre of attention, the 900-kilogram walrus twists around and wags her flippers at her trainer\u2019s call, sending people in the nearly packed bleachers clapping and cheering even louder for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"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,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[7944,2368,4944,67,41,6261,2103,960,7945,5750],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-amusement-rides","tag-crowd","tag-king-waldorf","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-attraction","tag-protest","tag-toronto-star","tag-tourist-spot","tag-walrus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","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=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}