{"id":298,"date":"2008-11-15T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-11-15T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:00:08","slug":"the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"The Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August (yes, I&#8217;m a little behind), we had the opportunity to visit Hogle Zoo as a family. My sister, Karla, joined us in the fun. Bridget and I had gone last summer, but this was the first time all of us had been together.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time visiting all the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for the Elephant show to start&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11.15_zoo1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bridget, enjoying a nice cold beverage in her new plastic elephant bottle&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11.15_zoo2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daddy and Bridget checking out some animals&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11.15_zoo3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aunt Karla, and a very fierce lion&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11.15_zoo4.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bridget and I. And a zebra&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11.15_zoo5.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we got to the zoo, we were greeted by a family in the parking lot that had 2 extra admission tickets they couldn&#8217;t use. They very graciously gave them to us. Thank you, whomever you are. We appreciate the gesture. Know that we would have tried to pay you for them, if we&#8217;d had any more than $0.30 in cash at the time.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, it was fun to be able to get away as a family for the day, and visit the zoo! It was a bit of a rarity this summer with Dave&#8217;s hectic schedule (lots of school, and a big work project). We really enjoyed the zoo, and look forward to visiting again &#8211; maybe next summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August (yes, I&#8217;m a little behind), we had the opportunity to visit Hogle Zoo as a family. My sister, Karla, joined us in the fun. Bridget and I had gone last summer, but this was the first time all of us had been together. We had a great time visiting all the animals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-bridget","category-dave","category-family-life","category-tina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}