{"id":59,"date":"2010-12-10T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=59"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T13:38:41","slug":"action-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2010\/12\/action-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Action Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Action_Park\">Wikipedia&#8217;s entry for Action Park<\/a>, a (now shuttered) amusement park near my home town in New Jersey, does an amazing job of capturing the spirit that made the park so popular:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of Action Park&#8217;s attractions were unique. They gave patrons more control over their experience than they would have at most other amusement parks&#8217; rides, but for the same reason were considerably riskier.<\/p>\n<p>Its popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, underaged, underpaid and sometimes under-the-influence employees; equally intoxicated and underprepared visitors \u2014 and the poor safety record that followed from this perfect storm of circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This section on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Action_Park#Alpine_slide\">Alpine slide<\/a>, probably one of the most dangerous amusement park attractions ever, is just perfect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sleds themselves were a large factor in the injuries. A stick that was supposed to control speed led, in practice, to just two options on the infrequently maintained vehicles: extremely slow, <strong>and a speed described by one former employee as &#8220;death awaits.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia&#8217;s entry for Action Park, a (now shuttered) amusement park near my home town in New Jersey, does an amazing job of capturing the spirit that made the park so popular: Many of Action Park&#8217;s attractions were unique. They gave patrons more control over their experience than they would have at most other amusement parks&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,9,60,105],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-action-park","tag-amusement-parks","tag-knuckleheadery","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}