{"id":1891,"date":"2007-07-27T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/27\/park-or-prison\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T12:26:39","slug":"park-or-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/park-or-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Park or prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?892\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For nearly five decades, Marineland has used images of dancing mascots and whales kissing kids to persuade families that their park is a friendly and fun environment.<\/p>\n<p>Millions have been convinced by 30-second fun-in-the-sun commercials and the park&#8217;s unforgettable jingle, but animal rights groups insist the facility is a prison for its captive animals.<\/p>\n<p>While the theme park continues to grow in size and popularity every summer, one thing has become clear in recent years: not everyone &#8220;loves&#8221; Marineland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: For nearly five decades, Marineland has used images of dancing mascots and whales kissing kids to persuade families that their park is a friendly and fun environment. Millions have been convinced by 30-second fun-in-the-sun commercials and the park&#8217;s unforgettable jingle, but animal rights groups insist the facility is a prison for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1891","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}