{"id":15438,"date":"2014-09-21T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/image-of-my-father-emerging-from-the-proto-or\/"},"modified":"2014-09-21T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T20:11:02","slug":"image-of-my-father-emerging-from-the-proto-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/image-of-my-father-emerging-from-the-proto-or\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/ed7a51ad15d2b5071c5930aaddd8426c\/tumblr_inline_nc9pb9qRpQ1qb76wj.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>image of my father emerging from the proto- or pre-Schlitterbahn water chute in New Braunfels. Added to augment the quote by <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/m19ODA86FVKpjv7_If4LX_A\">iamdanw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/post\/98062504806\/a-master-blaster-can-cost-more-than-1-million\">iamdanw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cA Master Blaster can cost more than $1 million. Water parks responded by raising their admission fees. An adult ticket to Schlitterbahn New Braunfels now costs $51.99. But that increase had an unforeseen benefit. Customers were staying at water parks all day to get their fifty bucks\u2019 worth. In the process, they were spending more at the concession stands. \u201cBy itself, Master Blaster is not necessarily an economically viable piece of equipment,\u201d said Geoff Chutter, CEO of WhiteWater West, which licensed the technology from Henry. \u201cBut add food and beverage around it and all of a sudden it does incredibly well as an addition to the bottom line.\u201d\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/the-wet-stuff-verruckt-waterslide-schlitterbahn\/\">The Wet Stuff: Jeff Henry, Verrukt, and the Men Who Built the Great American Waterpark \u2013 Grantland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image of my father emerging from the proto- or pre-Schlitterbahn water chute in New Braunfels. Added to augment the quote by iamdanw: iamdanw: \u201cA Master Blaster can cost more than $1 million. Water parks responded by raising their admission fees. An adult ticket to Schlitterbahn New Braunfels now costs $51.99. But that increase had an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-410","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}