{"id":462923,"date":"2021-04-30T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462923"},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:51:04","slug":"disneyland-reopens-after-412-days-being-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disneyland-reopens-after-412-days-being-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland Reopens After 412 Days Being Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisneyland-reopens-after-412-days-being-closed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462923&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4262.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>After a 412-day shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, California\u2019s Disneyland finally opened on Friday as guests waited for hours outside to enjoy the theme park\u2019s attractions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cDisneyland and Disney California Adventure Park reopened at 8 a.m. local time with the first guests cheering, clapping and waving as they came through the gates,\u201d reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/experience\/america\/theme-parks\/2021\/04\/30\/disneyland-reopening-2021-disney-california-parks-open-after-covid-closure\/4881772001\/\">USA Today<\/a>. \u201cThe Anaheim parks are only open to California residents at limited capacity for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some fans held back tears as they entered the park while others used it as a moment of triumph; \u00a0Kevin Pryor and his girlfriend Brittany Roth both recreated the iconic photograph of the sailor kissing the nurse at the end of World War II to symbolize victory over COVID-19. Despite the park\u2019s reopening, COVID-19 protocols still loomed large over the park, from mask mandates to limited capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cCast members monitored lines and enforced distancing rules. Concrete benches in front of King Arthur Carousel have signs to keep people distanced, allowing just one person to sit. Wait times on rides have varied from about 5 to 45 minutes, but the times change quickly as people move around,\u201d continued USA Today. \u201cCharacters in Toontown came out randomly, standing at the doorways or front porches of their homes and waved. Guests are not currently able to go into the homes of Mickey, Minnie and other characters but stood on the curb outside the houses, waved and took photos from afar. Mickey came out of his house at 10:30 a.m. and waved to guests who quickly began to gather. A cast member verbally reminded all to \u2018stay 6 feet away\u2019 from each other. These are the pandemic-era character meetings under current COVID-19 safety guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the COVID protocols, guests were still enthusiastic about the reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Disney made headlines recently when a superfan\u2019s op-ed went viral criticizing the parks for adopting \u201cwokeness\u201d over guest experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is is, I\u2019m not traveling across the country and paying thousands of dollars to watch someone I do not know express themselves. I am there for the immersion and the fantasy, not the reality of a stranger\u2019s self-expression,\u201d Jonathan VanBoskerck wrote in the Orlando Sentinel. \u201cI do not begrudge these people their individuality and I wish them well in their personal lives, but I do not get to express my individuality at my place of business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VanBoskerck was responding to several of Disney\u2019s decisions over the past decade to update its attractions (such as \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d and \u201cSplash Mountain\u201d) and allow employees more flexibility to express themselves in their work attire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new approach provides greater flexibly with respect to form of personal expression surrounding gender-inclusive hairstyles, jewelry, nail styles, and costume choices; and allowing appropriate visible tattoos,\u201d Disney Park Chairman Josh D\u2019Amaro said of the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disney-super-fan-wokeness-is-ruining-the-theme-park-experience\">Is \u2018Wokeness\u2019 Ruining Disney World\u2019s Theme Park Experience? This Super Fan Says It Is<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 412-day shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, California\u2019s Disneyland finally opened on Friday as guests waited for hours outside to enjoy the theme park\u2019s attractions.\u201cDisneyland and Disney California &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277105,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4262.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Disneyland Reopens After 412 Days Being Closed","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4262.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Disneyland Reopens After 412 Days Being Closed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}