{"id":11750,"date":"2022-09-18T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=11750"},"modified":"2022-09-18T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T01:48:34","slug":"the-st-louis-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/18\/the-st-louis-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The St Louis Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elephants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A few of you may be old enough to remember Marlin Perkins<\/a>, host of the Wild Kingdom<\/em><\/a> TV show that ran from 1963 to 1988. He was director of the St Louis Zoo, one of the preeminent zoos in the US. I like a good zoo and have always wanted to visit it. I got my opportunity on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn’t disappoint. It is a very well-designed zoo, both for the animals and the human visitors. The habitats are natural and the grounds are beautiful with many lovely water features. We spent a few hours there and put about 2 miles on our sneakers. I wasn’t particularly happy with the photos I took, despite it being a beautiful day. Part of the difficulty is that animals move and when they aren’t moving they are often sleeping. The other difficulty is that we went on Saturday when the crowds were large and many children got in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water feature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Somali wild ass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But it was fun and it was free. Well, except for the $15 parking charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elephant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rattlesnake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zebras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A few of you may be old enough to remember Marlin Perkins, host of the Wild Kingdom TV show that ran from 1963 to 1988. He was director of the St Louis Zoo, one of the preeminent zoos in the US. I like a good zoo and have always wanted to visit it. I got … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,32,4,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-places-mo","category-places","category-ts8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-33w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11758,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}