{"id":1598,"date":"2009-03-24T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-03-24T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:22:26","slug":"coasters-shmoasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/coasters-shmoasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Coasters, Shmoasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having recently mustered the courage to ride the Behemoth at Canada’s Wonderland<\/a>, I thought I was a tough guy.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, I can handle it, two or three times, even.\u00c2\u00a0 I can swagger around and tell everyone how cool I am, cause I am.\u00c2\u00a0 Just. That. Cool.<\/p>\n

That is until these pictures of bigger, nastier, scarier roller coasters<\/a> made my stomach flip and do a very un-cool gurgle.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, look at this one, it’s beyond scary.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s batshit insane.<\/p>\n

\"jeeesus....\"<\/p>\n

This one, called Kingda Ka is at Six Flags in New Jersey.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s 456 feet tall, and hits 128 mph, which makes your face actually flatter after riding it.\u00c2\u00a0 You need to wear a special mouth guard to keep your cheeks from flapping too much, it’s basically a soother since you will be crying like a baby afterward (probably).\u00c2\u00a0 Think about that, the Behemoth is only 230 feet tall and only <\/em><\/strong>does 77 mph….\u00c2\u00a0 man, that’s humbling.<\/p>\n

So, I will now stop feeling like I’m all that, since there are much scarier coasters out there that I haven’t ridden…. or ever will hopefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having recently mustered the courage to ride the Behemoth at Canada’s Wonderland, I thought I was a tough guy.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, I can handle it, two or three times, even.\u00c2\u00a0 I can swagger around and tell everyone how cool I am, … Continue reading →<\/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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,98],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","tag-insanity","tag-roller-coaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-pM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}