{"id":993,"date":"2006-04-20T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/no_one_is_more_unmoved_than_the_amusement_park_veteran.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:37:35","slug":"no_one_is_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/no_one_is_more.html","title":{"rendered":"No One Is More Unmoved Than The Amusement Park Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/410260p-347140c.html\">Don&#8217;t oversell it or anything<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A New Jersey amusement park king is rushing to reopen the shuttered [Nellie Bly] Shore Parkway kiddie park by Memorial Day weekend &#8212; with brand-new rides, a new name and wi-fi technology.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Garin and his co-owner son Marc plan to restore five of Nellie Bly&#8217;s ancient rides and introduce seven new ones &#8212; most of them with kid-friendly names like Venture Elephant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if its going to be much different, but it&#8217;s going to be quality &#8212; it&#8217;s going to have rides and food and entertainment,&#8221; said Garin, who ran New Jersey&#8217;s Meadowlands Fair until 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Minor thrillers such as bumper cars, the Tilt-a-Whirl, and the Scrambler will be reintroduced, and a handful of less-scary attractions, such as a carousel, also will hopefully draw the kids, the Garins said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like every kiddie ride,&#8221; Marc Garin said of the Venture Elephant and others like it. &#8220;It just goes &#8217;round and &#8217;round.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t oversell it or anything: A New Jersey amusement park king is rushing to reopen the shuttered [Nellie Bly] Shore Parkway kiddie park by Memorial Day weekend &#8212; with brand-new rides, a new name and wi-fi technology. Martin Garin and his co-owner son Marc plan to restore five of Nellie Bly&#8217;s ancient rides and introduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-the_screenwriters_idea_bag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}