{"id":2614,"date":"2010-03-01T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:00:03","slug":"san-diego-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Chad and I received annual passes to the San Diego zoo as gifts from his parents.<\/p>\n<p>Passes are great gifts.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already gone three times &#8211; and enjoyed ourselves tremendously each visit. The last time, Bella even came with her friend. And because we have passes, we don&#8217;t feel the need to exhaust ourselves and explore every nook and cranny during a a visit. We pack sandwiches, arrive at opening, and then leave before the afternoon traffic starts.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pics from our visit last month. Unfortunately, Christian came down with a 24-hour fever that evening and so he looks a little spacey in the pics.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the Safari Park is part of our annual pass, so we&#8217;ll do that one next time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zebras 1. Zebras are so photogenic.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zebras 2.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zebras 3.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Peacock gave us a show, which I didn&#39;t catch on film.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each time we visit, Christian gets into a different animal. This time it was the hippopotamus.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2oc-1fex7to]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">They were definitely cuddling.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2035.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gorillas are always a hit. Frank, the baby, is growing up fast.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The alpha chimp.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Chad and I received annual passes to the San Diego zoo as gifts from his parents. Passes are great gifts. We&#8217;ve already gone three times &#8211; and enjoyed ourselves tremendously each visit. The last time, Bella even came &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,103,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-san-diego","category-socal-attractions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}