{"id":59069,"date":"2026-08-20T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hitchin-fruit-farm-defends-titanic-themed-ride-after-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:57:24","slug":"hitchin-fruit-farm-defends-titanic-themed-ride-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hitchin-fruit-farm-defends-titanic-themed-ride-after-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchin fruit farm defends Titanic-themed ride after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After receiving complaints last year, the farm had new signs made to rename the ride The Big Tipper, but Campbell-Gray said this caused a &#8220;far greater&#8221; backlash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;My wife, who does the social media, got threats&#8230; death threats saying that we should change it back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we actually thought long and hard and thought, actually, we&#8217;re not making fun of the dead or anything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Actually it&#8217;s a nice thing to be a memory of the Titanic and keep the Titanic memory alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ceqe37zrw2xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving complaints last year, the farm had new signs made to rename the ride The Big Tipper, but Campbell-Gray said this caused a &#8220;far greater&#8221; backlash. He said: &#8220;My wife, who does the social media, got threats&#8230; death threats saying that we should change it back. &#8220;So we actually thought long and hard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2487,368,1079,2656,7923,4816,16391],"class_list":["post-59069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-backlash","tag-defends","tag-farm","tag-fruit","tag-hitchin","tag-ride","tag-titanicthemed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59071,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59069\/revisions\/59071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}