{"id":573,"date":"2011-01-30T23:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2013-11-16T23:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T23:42:59","slug":"loudoun-castle-theme-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/miscellaneous\/loudoun-castle-theme-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Loudoun Castle Theme Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The theme park opened in the grounds of a 19th Century castle in 1995, and had three roller coasters plus a bunch of other rides. It’s location probably did for it, though – it’s not especially near anywhere and there’s a theme park closer to Glasgow.<\/p>\n


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This ride had not even been finished:<\/p>\n

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For the first time ever exploring anywhere, someone was absolutely delighted to see me – this little fella was all on his own, he seemed to have lots of food, but he really wanted a scratch behind the ears.<\/p>\n

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There was a pretty lame figure-8 flume ride:<\/p>\n

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A few years ago, a worker was killed on this ride – a rollercoaster got stuck, and he climbed up to give it a push…<\/p>\n

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The theme park opened in the grounds of a 19th Century castle in 1995, and had three roller coasters plus a bunch of other rides. It’s location probably did for it, though – it’s not especially near anywhere and there’s a theme park closer to Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/5402532242_364ed3d84d_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-9f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}