{"id":132,"date":"2012-11-01T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/?p=132"},"modified":"2015-03-28T23:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:50:42","slug":"favorite-zoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/favorite-zoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Zoos &#038; Aquariums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the time I was a young child, my parents took me on many field trips to zoos.\u00a0 I learned a lot about the animals from reading the signs and asking a lot of questions.\u00a0 More importantly, it taught me the importance of patience, particularly when capturing a photo of an animal.\u00a0 Although I always prefer to see wildlife in their natural habitat, this is not always possible.\u00a0 Some of my favorite zoos include (listed alphabetically)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Binder Park Zoo &#8211; Battle Creek, Michigan\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.binderparkzoo.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.binderparkzoo.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Cape May County Zoo &#8211; Cape May, New Jersey\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/capemaycountyzoo.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/capemaycountyzoo.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Zoo &#8211; Cincinnati, Ohio (<a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnatizoo.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cincinnatizoo.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Zoo &#8211; Columbus, Ohio\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colszoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.colszoo.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Aquarium &#8211; Atlanta, Georgia\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaaquarium.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.georgiaaquarium.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_7452-Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-308\" title=\"Georgia Aquarium\" src=\"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_7452-Small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Park Zoo &#8211; Chicago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpzoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lpzoo.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>National Zoo &#8211; Washington, D.C.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Potter Park Zoo &#8211; Lansing, Michigan\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.potterparkzoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.potterparkzoo.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Shedd Aquarium &#8211; Chicago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheddaquarium.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sheddaquarium.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the time I was a young child, my parents took me on many field trips to zoos.\u00a0 I learned a lot about the animals from reading the signs and asking a lot of questions.\u00a0 More importantly, it taught me the importance of patience, particularly when capturing a photo of an animal.\u00a0 Although I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}