{"id":2856,"date":"2012-07-02T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2016-09-27T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:27:07","slug":"new-at-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2856","title":{"rendered":"New at the Zoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8006\/7461856518_722d0ddf33_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0033\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>wink, wink<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday (right before Andrew left for four days), we were lucky enough to be some of the first people to experience the St. Louis Zoo&#8217;s new exhibit Sea Lion Sound. I mean, we were up early (surprise, surprise) and it was a crazy hot day, so we headed there at 8am and I&#8217;m so glad we did! For all you St. Louis folks, go check this out (it&#8217;s free!). And for those of you who aren&#8217;t, just know that this zoo is so impressive and if you&#8217;re ever in the area, it would be worth your while to visit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8152\/7461853276_7cf3370cb9_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0018\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7266\/7461854374_df51645d75_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8027\/7461855066_1feb9f562f_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0029\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8143\/7461855776_909800a08c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0032\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8020\/7461857214_7bfbb1f9bb_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0036\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Holy bed-head, batman!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7261\/7461857726_73bc72a5b2_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0041\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8021\/7461858352_d908feafdd_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0043\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>show-off<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8016\/7461859006_94cff511a7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0046\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is an underwater viewing tunnel (which Oliver called the water cave) which was so relaxing. There is something so serene about being under water, especially when you can watch the grace and beauty of creatures like this. I mean, even hippos look graceful under water! We&#8217;ll definitely be back!<\/p>\n<p>But in the mean-time, I anxiously await Andrew&#8217;s arrival home! It feels like he has been gone for a month&#8230; yeah. Kind of a rough few days, it&#8217;s been. Remind me in November\/December NOT to get pregnant again (as this seems to be the case every two years on the dot)!!!<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously. Remind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wink, wink Last Thursday (right before Andrew left for four days), we were lucky enough to be some of the first people to experience the St. Louis Zoo&#8217;s new exhibit Sea Lion Sound. I mean, we were up early (surprise, surprise) and it was a crazy hot day, so we headed there at 8am and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New at the Zoo!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,185],"tags":[174,88,77],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherhood","category-stlouis","tag-favorite-places","tag-st-louis","tag-sweet-haircuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/12518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}