{"id":8284,"date":"2011-07-11T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2011-07-11T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:12:15","slug":"family-of-nj-girl-who-died-on-ferris-wheel-sues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8284","title":{"rendered":"Family Of NJ Girl  Who Died On  Ferris Wheel Sues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The parents of an 11-year-old girl who fell to her death from near the top of a New Jersey shore Ferris wheel are suing the ride&#8217;s operator.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twanda<\/strong> and <strong>Byron Jones<\/strong> filed suit Thursday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n<p>Their 11-year-old daughter, <strong>Abiah<\/strong> (ah-BEYE&#8217;-ah), was on a school trip when she fell about 150 feet from the Giant Wheel at Morey&#8217;s Mariner&#8217;s Landing Pier in Wildwood on June 3. Investigators have not been able to determine how the girl got out of the gondola.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the family says the Pleasantville, N.J., couple is suing in Pennsylvania because Morey&#8217;s Pier does extensive marketing there. The suit does not ask for specific damages.<\/p>\n<p>A Morey&#8217;s spokeswoman says the company won&#8217;t comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The parents of an 11-year-old girl who fell to her death from near the top of a New Jersey shore Ferris wheel are suing the ride&#8217;s operator. Twanda and Byron Jones filed suit Thursday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Their 11-year-old daughter, Abiah (ah-BEYE&#8217;-ah), was on a school trip when she fell about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}