{"id":6814,"date":"2003-05-14T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/14\/6814\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:25:04","slug":"6814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/14\/6814\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Flags As You&#8217;ll Never See It, Piker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Six Flags over Mid America, in Eureka, Missouri (a suburb, now, of St. Louis) opens, the firefighters and emergency workers have their day.  It&#8217;s not like they get short lines to the roller coasters, though; Six Flags lets them use the Thunder River ride to practice rescuing people from flash floods and rapids.  How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>Story, courtesy of the <i>Suburban Journals<\/i> (a wholly owned subsidiary of the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> designed to make you think there&#8217;s real &#8220;competition&#8221; or that they contain &#8220;news&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/neighborhoods\/stories.nsf\/Home\/MO\/West+County\/Maryland+Heights\/13008176266A15FA86256D25006B20AA?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Firefighters%20take%20part%20in%20rapid%20water%20rescue%20training%20\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Six Flags over Mid America, in Eureka, Missouri (a suburb, now, of St. Louis) opens, the firefighters and emergency workers have their day. It&#8217;s not like they get short lines to the roller coasters, though; Six Flags lets them use the Thunder River ride to practice rescuing people from flash floods and rapids. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21196,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions\/21196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}