{"id":121,"date":"2005-01-05T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localdev.bransontourist.com\/branson-information\/silver-dollar-city-blasts-into-2005-with-new-explosive-launch-coaster\/"},"modified":"2005-01-05T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T17:39:00","slug":"silver-dollar-city-blasts-into-2005-with-new-explosive-launch-coaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/silver-dollar-city-blasts-into-2005-with-new-explosive-launch-coaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Dollar City blasts into 2005 with new explosive-launch coaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Dollar City blasts into 2005 with a new explosive-launch roller coaster, Powder Keg; a new Bluegrass &amp; BBQ festival combining the hot sounds of American bluegrass music with an all-American favorite food; and a new Salute to the American Cowboy within the Festival of American Music &amp; Crafts. New for Kids&#8217; Fest, &#8220;Newton&#8217;s Revenge&#8221; is a live show that explores the zany side of science, and the &#8220;Purina Dog Team Challenge&#8221; presents world-champion Frisbee-catching dogs in amazing team competitions. Throughout the season, the 1880s-style theme park features music and entertainment, demonstrating craftsmen, themed rides and foods from festival specialties to home-cooked feasts.<\/p>\n<p>Opening in Spring, the new $10 million roller coaster Powder Keg sends riders into a thrill zone within seconds of climbing aboard, launching riders from 0 to 53 miles per hour in just 2.8 seconds. A thrill ride unlike any other in the history of the theme park, Powder Keg combines the shocking speed of the compressed air-launch with spiraling turns, negative gravitational or &#8220;G&#8221; forces, and &#8220;floater&#8221; hills at speeds up to 64 miles per hour for a truly wild ride experience, billed as a &#8220;blast in the wilderness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Dollar City blasts into 2005 with a new explosive-launch roller coaster, Powder Keg; a new Bluegrass &amp; BBQ festival combining the hot sounds of American bluegrass music with an all-American favorite food; and a new Salute to the American Cowboy within the Festival of American Music &amp; Crafts. New for Kids&#8217; Fest, &#8220;Newton&#8217;s Revenge&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransontourist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}