{"id":6655,"date":"2009-05-29T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2016-03-11T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:48:27","slug":"athena-orcakiller-whale-at-marineland-apparently-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/athena-orcakiller-whale-at-marineland-apparently-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena, orca\/killer whale at Marineland, apparently has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, someone left a comment on an old posting, saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/whale-dies-at-marineland\/comment-page-1\/#comment-225582\">there were only 2 whales on display at Marineland<\/a>, and that Athena was missing, but presumed dead. I asked around with some unofficial sources, but no one knew anything. Yesterday evening, someone else left a comment saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/whale-dies-at-marineland\/comment-page-1\/#comment-225603\">Athena had died on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I searched online for information, but the only thing I could find were some comments left on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fc2VXPdS5SA\">a YouTube video posted 8+ months ago<\/a>. Someone with the username bubblywums posted the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, it is unfortunately true. It was never announced, but the trainers said she passed away for the off-season. It&#8217;s just Kiska and Ike left at Friendship Cove.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone else with the username yomellyyo posted the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Athena did infact pass recently. She all of a sudden got really sick and in 2 days she was gone. It was so fast no one could do anything to help. I know this because I work in Friendship Cove.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Slipstreams, a site I&#8217;ve linked to before, has no information. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orcahome.de\/orcanews.htm\">Orca Homepage<\/a> has some basic information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, someone left a comment on an old posting, saying that there were only 2 whales on display at Marineland, and that Athena was missing, but presumed dead. I asked around with some unofficial sources, but no one knew anything. Yesterday evening, someone else left a comment saying that Athena had died on Sunday. I&#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],"tags":[1524,1523,67,1522],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","tag-athena","tag-killer-whale","tag-marineland","tag-orca-whale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","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=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}