{"id":17276,"date":"2016-01-27T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17276"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:34:35","slug":"marineland-dismisses-rumours-of-orcas-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/marineland-dismisses-rumours-of-orcas-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland dismisses rumours of orca\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/01\/25\/marineland-dismisses-rumours-of-orcas-death\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marineland says rumours that its lone killer whale died over the weekend was part of an &#8220;orchestrated&#8221; attack by animal rights activists.<\/p>\n<p>Without naming the group or individuals that started them, Marineland says &#8220;false allegations&#8221; were posted that Kiska &#8211; the only captive orca in Canada \u2013 had died. It came after several phone calls the park received inquiring about Kiska&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Repeated calls were made to Marineland&#8217;s information line by a number of individuals, all of whom demanded to know whether Kiska was still alive,&#8221; said a park spokesperson in an e-mailed response to The Review. &#8220;They were all assured that Kiska is fine and healthy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Marineland says rumours that its lone killer whale died over the weekend was part of an &#8220;orchestrated&#8221; attack by animal rights activists. Without naming the group or individuals that started them, Marineland says &#8220;false allegations&#8221; were posted that Kiska &#8211; the only captive orca in Canada \u2013 had died. It&#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":[16,832,2],"tags":[10501,8251,10500,10502,5744,1139,97],"class_list":["post-17276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-activist","tag-animal-rights","tag-captive","tag-condition","tag-kiska","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-orca"],"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\/17276","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=17276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}