{"id":11847,"date":"2012-10-09T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11847"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:22:54","slug":"marineland-stormed-by-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/marineland-stormed-by-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland stormed by protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds there was quite a bit of excitement at Marineland on Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2012\/10\/08\/marineland_stormed_by_protesters.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last day of Marineland\u2019s operating season drew hundreds of protesters outside the Niagara tourist attraction\u2019s gates on Sunday and escalated when about 150 people stormed inside, yelling \u201cshut it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said they hadn\u2019t planned to enter the park but set up a demonstration outside in hopes of keeping attention on sea mammal captivity in Canada, even after Marineland shuts down for the winter. The protest, which appeared to draw a crowd of at least 500 at its peak, follows a Star investigation that reported accounts by former trainers who blamed poor water quality and short-staffing for animal sickness and death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newstalk 1010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstalk1010.com\/News\/localnews\/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10447273\">Protestors force way into Marineland<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Niagara This Week &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/news\/article\/1515218\">Dozens storm Marineland gates during protest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds there was quite a bit of excitement at Marineland on Sunday! From the Toronto Star: The last day of Marineland\u2019s operating season drew hundreds of protesters outside the Niagara tourist attraction\u2019s gates on Sunday and escalated when about 150 people stormed inside, yelling \u201cshut it down.\u201d Organizers said they hadn\u2019t planned to enter the&#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_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":[3642,3714,8160,67,451,2631,8158,8159,3644,7876,960,1989],"class_list":["post-11847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-captivity","tag-demonstration","tag-gates","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-organizers","tag-poor-water-quality","tag-protesters","tag-protestors","tag-sea-mammal","tag-toronto-star","tag-tourist-attraction"],"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\/11847","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=11847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11848,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions\/11848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}