{"id":5755,"date":"2014-07-11T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T23:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2014-07-16T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T23:15:31","slug":"insane-germans-invade-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/11\/insane-germans-invade-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Insane Germans Invade Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/entertainment\/article690273.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Kansas City Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Verr\u00fcckt water slide to open at Schlitterbahn Thursday<\/h1>\n<p>BY KATHY LU \/\u00a0THE KANSAS CITY STAR<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/incoming\/dxii2j\/picture696030\/alternates\/FREE_960\/photo%20(2).JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><em>A test raft on the Verruckt water slide Wednesday morning at the Schlitterbahn water park<\/em><em><span class=\"attribution\">JOHN SLEEZER\/THE KANSAS CITY STAR<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s tallest water slide is finally, finally set to open.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0d76ba;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schlitterbahn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schlitterbahn<\/a>\u00a0water park in Kansas City, Kan., announced Tuesday that\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0d76ba;\" href=\"http:\/\/theverruckt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Verr\u00fcckt\u00a0<\/a>will open to the public on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>At 168 feet, 7 inches, Verr\u00fcckt was certified in April as the tallest water slide in the world by Guinness World Records. Riders, who must be at least 54 inches tall and 14 years old, will have to climb 264 steps to reach the three-person raft.<\/p>\n<p>The ride \u2014 its German name means \u201cinsane\u201d \u2014 was originally set to open on May 23, when Schlitterbahn opened for the season.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/entertainment\/article690273.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Kansas City Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Kansas City Star Verr\u00fcckt water slide to open at Schlitterbahn Thursday BY KATHY LU \/\u00a0THE KANSAS CITY STAR A test raft on the Verruckt water slide Wednesday morning at the Schlitterbahn water parkJOHN SLEEZER\/THE KANSAS CITY STAR The world\u2019s tallest water slide is finally, finally set to open. Officials at\u00a0Schlitterbahn\u00a0water park in Kansas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}