{"id":3162,"date":"2006-06-30T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:33:44","slug":"san-diego-wildlife-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/06\/30\/san-diego-wildlife-park\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Wildlife Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/IMG_8292.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/IMG_8292.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Doing San Diego Zoo one day and then trying the Wildlife Park the next may have been a bit much, but Westercon is fast approaching and we&#8217;re running out of time to get the touristy things done.  We were warned that it was hotter inland, and it was.  Still, I like the Wildlife Park much better than the Zoo.  There&#8217;s room for the animals to roam around.  It&#8217;s closer to what I&#8217;ve come to expect, after visiting so many wildlife refuges where the animals are living their natural lives there, not being kept for display.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/IMG_8299.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/IMG_8299.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.  I like zoos.  I&#8217;m perfectly willing to fund them and I know they serve a solid purpose.  But, there&#8217;s too many people, and when they start adding carousels and dinosaur exhibits, I get a little discouraged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/IMG_8296.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/IMG_8296.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Still, after spending a while watching the gorillas and seeing the bonobos from the monorail, tonight&#8217;s movie from my media center was &#8220;Mighty Joe Young&#8221;, the 1949 version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing San Diego Zoo one day and then trying the Wildlife Park the next may have been a bit much, but Westercon is fast approaching and we&#8217;re running out of time to get the touristy things done. We were warned that it was hotter inland, and it was. Still, I like the Wildlife Park much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/06\/30\/san-diego-wildlife-park\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">San Diego Wildlife Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[404,56,407],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-P0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}