{"id":20847,"date":"2011-01-11T07:12:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20847"},"modified":"2011-01-12T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:04:06","slug":"another-whistler-gondola-breaks-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20847","title":{"rendered":"Another Whistler Gondola Breaks Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/4088664.bin_.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/4088664.bin_.jpeg','popup','width=620,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/4088664.bin-tm.jpg\" height=\"129\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"4088664.Bin\" \/><\/a>Nearly 300 people were stranded for two hours on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerblackcomb.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Whistler&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Village Gondola<\/strong> yesterday (Monday, January 10, 2010) around 9:45 AM, according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/technology\/Hundreds+stranded+hours+Whistler+gondola\/4088657\/story.html?cid=megadrop_story\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[One trapped woman] said she phoned the mountain\u2019s toll-free number twice, but was disconnected both times. She then checked the mountain\u2019s social media pages, only to be frustrated by a lack of details. . . \u201cBeing stuck that long and not being able to contact the staff at Whistler was really aggravating,\u201d she said. \u201cWe kept checking Facebook and Twitter and they weren\u2019t saying anything except that it was a mechanical issue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The gondola finally moved enough to allow all the guests to exit. Those stranded were reportedly given food and drink vouchers and free lift passes. The gondola is reportedly closed until the cause of the problem can be completely investigated. This is just the latest in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=whistler+fail\" target=\"_blank\">seemingly annual lift and\/or gondola failure<\/a><\/strong> at the financially troubled resort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/technology\/Hundreds+stranded+hours+Whistler+gondola\/4088657\/story.html?cid=megadrop_story\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 300 people were stranded for two hours on Whistler&#8217;s Village Gondola yesterday (Monday, January 10, 2010) around 9:45 AM, according to a story on The Province. [One trapped woman] said she phoned the mountain\u2019s toll-free number twice, but was disconnected both times. She then checked the mountain\u2019s social media pages, only to be frustrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20865,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847\/revisions\/20865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}