{"id":807,"date":"2016-12-13T18:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T23:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/?p=807"},"modified":"2016-12-13T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:17:21","slug":"steeplechase-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2016\/12\/13\/steeplechase-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Steeplechase Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7d\/Steeplechase_Park%2C_Coney_Island%2C_1910_Eugene_Wemlinger_Brooklyn_Museum.jpg\" alt=\"An elephant ride in the rebuilt Steeplechase park, which was located inside a two acre enclosed weatherproof steel-and-glass pavilion; 1910\" width=\"1536\" height=\"910\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elephant ride in the rebuilt Steeplechase Park, which was located inside a two acre enclosed weatherproof steel-and-glass pavilion; 1910<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Work Cited<br \/>\nWemlinger, Eugene. &#8220;File:Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, 1910 Eugene &#8230;&#8221; Wikimedia Commons. Accessed December 13, 2016. http:\/\/www.bing.com\/cr?IG=4AA6B704ADB74F41895E04C0A5DFD2BF&amp;CID=3342F4D5986F605E239AFD3E995E614C&amp;rd=1&amp;h=dD3inft8XMXFNycOoZAm_S5ArDqtG5mxHVND86Wb2V8&amp;v=1&amp;r=http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Steeplechase_Park,_Coney_Island,_1910_Eugene_Wemlinger_Brooklyn_Museum.jpg&amp;p=DevEx,5048.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as the &#8220;Funny Place&#8221; park, Steeplechase Park was an amusement park in Coney Island designed by George C. Tilyou. The first version of the park was opened in 1897, but a fire destroyed more than half of it in 1907. However, Tilyou rebuilt this iconic amusement center, and the new Steeplechase continued to operate until 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[109,131,106,99,110],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coney-island","category-tours","tag-coney-island","tag-funny-place","tag-leisure","tag-new-york","tag-twentieth-century"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}