{"id":16879,"date":"2014-10-24T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16879"},"modified":"2014-10-20T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:54:00","slug":"brief-marineland-2014-season-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/brief-marineland-2014-season-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Marineland 2014 season recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I have a regular reader send me in his thoughts\/observations about Marineland. Like a lot of people, he is conflicted about the park. He has great memories and see so much potential, but the current situation just doesn&#8217;t seem right.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of his comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I still check the park periodically via social media and such as I haven&#8217;t been to the park in ages&#8230; I&#8217;m hoping to go for the 2015 season!<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a recap of the 2014 season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>In March 2014 there was a bulldozer spotted behind Friendship Cove&#8217;s area<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Peanut and her calf from 2013 passed away during the winter 2013-2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Kelowna&#8217;s 2nd calf passed away in the winter 2013-2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Kiska began play sessions with toys since May-June<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Isis, Acadia, Aurora, Skyla, Rose and Talia were pregnant this year; all have given birth to healthy calves but Talia whom is still expecting or a stillbirth occurred (unconfirmed)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Belyi, the park&#8217;s first beluga passed away in August<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Rain and Charmin are the only wild caught females who haven&#8217;t gotten pregnant yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Deadmau5 letter to the park&#8230; I personally want to take over MLC in a heartbeat but I can&#8217;t \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: These are just his observations and I have presented them as is. I do not know how accurate they are, and have not tried to confirm anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I have a regular reader send me in his thoughts\/observations about Marineland. Like a lot of people, he is conflicted about the park. He has great memories and see so much potential, but the current situation just doesn&#8217;t seem right. Here are some of his comments: I still check the park periodically via social&#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":true,"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],"tags":[9467,10038,7856,8211,10036,10030,10037,8515,2504,10032,10031,5744,67,10029,339,10034,2268,10033,10035],"class_list":["post-16879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","tag-9467","tag-10038","tag-acadia","tag-aurora","tag-belyi","tag-calf","tag-charmin","tag-deadmau5","tag-friendship-cove","tag-isis","tag-kelowna","tag-kiska","tag-marineland","tag-peanut","tag-rain","tag-rose","tag-season","tag-skyla","tag-talia"],"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\/16879","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=16879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}