{"id":407,"date":"2006-05-22T17:57:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T22:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-06-11T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T19:57:05","slug":"kennywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Kennywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statement of the obvious: Google Earth is fun. It lets you see areas that you just can’t get to under normal circumstances. For example, I’ve always wondered what lay beyond the fences of the amusement park. The maps they provide suggest that just over the eight-food fence is pristine wilderness… <\/p>\n

\"Kennywood<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

…which is obviously hogwash because I didn’t see anything like that on the way in, and because I know better.<\/p>\n

But what is<\/em> over the fence? An industrial complex? Meat packing plant? A strip mine? Sewege treatment? Mass graves? Genova’s blast crater? What is it? What’s the big secret? <\/p>\n

It’s always hard to see. They place the fences and buildings carefully to block out the outside world and make the park its own self-contained reality. The only time you can get a good look is when you’re at the top of a coaster, and that’s a boring thing to be looking at during such a thrilling moment.<\/p>\n

But Google Earth reveals all: <\/p>\n

\"Kennywood<\/center><\/p>\n

Highways and housing plans. And look at that: On the north edge of the park (note I’m facing south, north is “down”) it really does have a buffer of trees. <\/p>\n

So now I know.<\/p>\n

Now, Let’s see what they have in Area 51…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statement of the obvious: Google Earth is fun. It lets you see areas that you just can’t get to under normal circumstances. For example, I’ve always wondered what lay beyond the fences of the amusement park. The maps they provide suggest that just over the eight-food fence is pristine wilderness… …which is obviously hogwash because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","tag-kennywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}