{"id":306,"date":"2007-09-09T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-09-09T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T17:21:03","slug":"the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"The Beast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beast is the signature roller coaster for Kings Island, a Cincinnati amusement park.  It is a wooden roller coaster and has been around since the park first opened.  It&#8217;s five minute ride is one of the longest of most amusement parks and features a second lift along with several enclosed turns.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to roller coasters, I bench mark them against the Gemini, a twin track wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio.  I consider the Gemini to be a premium ride which features a lot of thrills with a smooth delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The Beast has a lot of thrills and is an overall fun ride.  But, it tends to beat you up a little with the jerkiness of the ride, much like the Mean Streak at Cedar Point.  But all and all, it is a ride worth doing over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>On a scale of one to ten, I would have to give the Beast a nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beast is the signature roller coaster for Kings Island, a Cincinnati amusement park. It is a wooden roller coaster and has been around since the park first opened. It&#8217;s five minute ride is one of the longest of most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-4W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}