{"id":8466,"date":"2014-07-30T03:18:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T03:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2014-08-11T17:48:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:48:50","slug":"its-like-youre-a-bird-and-youre-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/its-like-youre-a-bird-and-youre-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s like you’re a bird and you’re flying"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the june 13 dispatch of new york today<\/em><\/a> about coney island’s new roller coaster:<\/p>\n

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A new roller coaster opens in Coney Island on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Thunderbolt is a skinny orange tangle of loops and corkscrews<\/a> nearly half a mile long, featuring a 115-foot plunge and a tummy-turning series of inversions.<\/p>\n

So when I was offered a test ride, I said what any sane person would:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo way.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I found someone to take my place: my 9-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

In the chill of Wednesday evening in nearly deserted Luna Park<\/a>, Violet, her friend Emmett, also 9, and his father were locked into the bright red seats.<\/p>\n

The ride looked unfinished. The car behind them was occupied by crash dummies. The padded headrests had not been installed yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not put your head back during the ride,\u201d Luna Park\u2019s photographer said. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to have an unpleasant experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me out!\u201d Violet yelled.<\/p>\n

Too late. The car inched away slowly, straight up, riders facing the sky. Over the brink, and the screams got louder.<\/p>\n

Zoom, swish, slam, zoom, spin, and it was over.<\/p>\n

Violet was breathless but not speechless.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re a bird and you\u2019re flying but then someone shoots you and you\u2019re falling and then someone gives you the Golden Fleece which makes you alive even if you\u2019re dead and then you\u2019re flying and jumping and flying and jumping and then you land on a branch. Woohoohoohooo I\u2019m alive!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the june 13 dispatch of new york today about coney island’s new roller coaster: A new roller coaster opens in Coney Island on Saturday. The Thunderbolt is a skinny orange tangle of loops and corkscrews nearly half a mile long, featuring a 115-foot plunge and a tummy-turning series of inversions. So when I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8564,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}