{"id":473,"date":"2010-06-29T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/?p=473"},"modified":"2010-06-29T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T15:00:59","slug":"rip-kiddieland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2010\/06\/rip-kiddieland.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Kiddieland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kiddieland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Over 30 Rides and Attractions” will now be a Costco, or so said NPR as it was coaxing me into wakefulness this morning.<\/p>\n

I don’t normally wake up to news of places I haunted as a kid, so it took me a minute to realize that they really did mean my<\/em> Kiddieland from the days when I lived in a Chicago suburb. This is the Kiddieland where, one rainy day, all the rides but the log ride were closed and all the other park visitors had gone home, so my siblings and friends and I road that log ride on continuous loop for what felt like hours. By the time we’d had enough, we were best friends with the ride operator.<\/p>\n

Looking back, I wonder if he resented not being able to go home, kept there by a bunch of kids giddy with the idea of having the park to themselves.<\/p>\n

I wonder if they’ll put a log ride into the Costco. The Mall of America could give them some pointers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Over 30 Rides and Attractions” will now be a Costco, or so said NPR as it was coaxing me into wakefulness this morning. I don’t normally wake up to news of places I haunted as a kid, so it took me a minute to realize that they really did mean my Kiddieland from the days … Continue reading RIP Kiddieland<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}