{"id":17415,"date":"2016-05-23T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17415"},"modified":"2016-05-22T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T01:39:42","slug":"opening-day-demonstration-at-marineland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/opening-day-demonstration-at-marineland\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening day demonstration at Marineland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/05\/21\/opening-day-demonstration-at-marineland\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On one side of the chain link fence families were lined up to enjoy a day of fun and activities at Marineland. On the other side of the fence were hundreds of animal activists voicing their concerns about the treatment and captivity of animals.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping a close eye on the situation were Niagara Regional Police who were kept busy directing traffic and making sure things remained peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>The annual opening day demonstration at Marineland began at 11 a.m. on Saturday and continued until about 2 p.m. with closing remarks by a number of the participants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Opening day is always one of the larger protests and right now we have about 300 people that have come to join us,&#8221; said Mike Garrett, organizer and long-time anti captivity advocate from the Niagara area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Niagara This Week &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/6566294-hundreds-turn-out-for-opening-day-protest-at-marineland\/\">Hundreds turn out for opening day protest at Marineland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: On one side of the chain link fence families were lined up to enjoy a day of fun and activities at Marineland. On the other side of the fence were hundreds of animal activists voicing their concerns about the treatment and captivity of animals. Keeping a close eye on 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":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":[6089,10727,67,9080,1139,551,2103],"class_list":["post-17415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-advocate","tag-families","tag-marineland","tag-mike-garrett","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-regional-police","tag-protest"],"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\/17415","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=17415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}