{"id":11747,"date":"2012-09-26T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:30:37","slug":"inspectors-take-only-a-day-give-marineland-a-clean-bill-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/inspectors-take-only-a-day-give-marineland-a-clean-bill-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspectors take only a day, give Marineland a clean bill of health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/09\/14\/inspectors_take_only_a_day_give_marineland_a_clean_bill_of_health.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It took only a day for inspectors to give Marineland the thumbs-up in the wake of a Star investigation and public complaints about animal care at the Niagara Falls facility.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent Starseries, former trainers blamed chronic health issues among sea mammals, including the recent death of a baby beluga, on staffing shortages and sporadically poor water at the park.<\/p>\n<p>But as three inspectors from the Canadian Association of Zoo and Aquariums left Marineland a week later on Aug. 23, they told owner John Holer the health of marine mammals looked \u201cvery good\u201d and the preventative medicine program was \u201ccomprehensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That same evening, Marineland put out an upbeat press release to say it had a clean bill of health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: It took only a day for inspectors to give Marineland the thumbs-up in the wake of a Star investigation and public complaints about animal care at the Niagara Falls facility. In a recent Starseries, former trainers blamed chronic health issues among sea mammals, including the recent death of a baby beluga,&#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":[16,832,2],"tags":[8002,5480,7688,8050,8049,8045,41,669,8046,8048,7898,8047,960,3545],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-animal-care","tag-aquariums","tag-baby-beluga","tag-chronic-health","tag-health-inspectors","tag-marine-mammals","tag-niagara-falls","tag-press-release","tag-preventative-medicine","tag-public-complaints","tag-sea-mammals","tag-staffing-shortages","tag-toronto-star","tag-zoo"],"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\/11747","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=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11748,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions\/11748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}