{"id":35452,"date":"2015-03-26T18:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=35452"},"modified":"2015-03-26T18:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T22:16:56","slug":"parents-petition-lehigh-acres-spring-festival-to-replace-ride-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/03\/parents-petition-lehigh-acres-spring-festival-to-replace-ride-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Petition Lehigh Acres <br>Spring Festival To Replace Ride Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W08NIHpbvb8?list=UUn76XuZvs8kdF5VlsnX6Ebw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center>Parents are trying to keep a carnival ride company from coming back to the Lehigh Acres Spring Festival. \u00a0They are fed up with repeated malfunctions.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, children got stuck on a ride for more than ninety minutes. \u00a0Now, parents are using an on-line petition &#8212; asking festival organizers to pick a different company.<\/p>\n<p>For three years in a row, a ride has malfunctioned at the Lehigh Acres Spring Festival. Luckily, this time around no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Acres parents are banding together asking Spring Festival planners to consider bringing in a different ride operator. \u00a0About 48 people already support the petition, some saying things like &#8220;we shouldn&#8217;t have to be scare to have fun.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/lehigh-acres-spring-festival-committe-stop-using-modern-midways-for-the-lehigh-acres-spring-festival\">Click here<\/a> for petition<\/p>\n<p>Some parents told us they refuse to bring their kids to the Spring Festival. \u00a0In 2013, the Ring of Fire sent two children to the hospital when witnesses say a wheel fell off. \u00a0Then last year, Modern Midways told us high winds caused a gate to fly off a ride and smash into a nearby windshield.<\/p>\n<p>We asked the organizers at the Lehigh Acres Spring Festival if they would consider the petition. They would comment at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Parents say they would be willing to ride, if there were more safety precautions. \u00a0Otherwise, they&#8217;ll keep avoiding the fair until a new company comes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are trying to keep a carnival ride company from coming back to the Lehigh Acres Spring Festival. \u00a0They are fed up with repeated malfunctions. Last year, children got stuck&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}