{"id":311,"date":"2005-06-16T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"are_we_thrilling_ourselves_to_death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/16\/are_we_thrilling_ourselves_to_death\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we thrilling ourselves to death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s front page of the Toronto Star had an interesting article titled <em>Are we thrilling ourselves to death?<\/em> The article isn&#8217;t about Niagara Falls, but given the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/31\/more_details_of_clifton_hill_development\">renewed interested in having amusement rides\/attractions in Niagara Falls<\/a>, I thought it was relevant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Higher, faster, upside down and &#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it takes to melt your mind, churn your stomach and hand you your lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, there&#8217;s a fresh contender on the amusement park scene. But has the race to deliver the next great midway breath-snatcher finally outstripped safety?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/9dazz\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/9dazz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s front page of the Toronto Star had an interesting article titled Are we thrilling ourselves to death? The article isn&#8217;t about Niagara Falls, but given the renewed interested in having amusement rides\/attractions in Niagara Falls, I thought it was relevant: Higher, faster, upside down and &#8230;? Whatever it takes to melt your mind, churn&#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-311","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\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}