{"id":1950,"date":"2007-08-13T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/13\/the-trouble-with-thrill-seekers-theyre-all-wet\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T14:02:44","slug":"the-trouble-with-thrill-seekers-theyre-all-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/the-trouble-with-thrill-seekers-theyre-all-wet\/","title":{"rendered":"The trouble with thrill-seekers (they&#8217;re all wet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?936\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fresh from a good soaking in the Niagara River, 10-year-old Tess Driscoll of Greenwich, Conn., steps off the Whirlpool jet boat and recites what she has just learned about a war once fought here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody won, and that&#8217;s why we share the river,&#8221; Tess says as her father, Kevin, looks on proudly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said it depends on who you ask,&#8221; a dripping Mr. Driscoll adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Driscolls are talking about the War of 1812, highlights of which they have just heard aboard their one-hour jet boat excursion up the river and into the churning Whirlpool Rapids, just below Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Little do they know how equally apt their words are when applied to a battle raging this summer, right under their wet feet, between the thrill ride&#8217;s operator and a vocal band of detractors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: Fresh from a good soaking in the Niagara River, 10-year-old Tess Driscoll of Greenwich, Conn., steps off the Whirlpool jet boat and recites what she has just learned about a war once fought here. &#8220;Nobody won, and that&#8217;s why we share the river,&#8221; Tess says as her father, Kevin, looks&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-1950","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\/1950","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=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}