{"id":869,"date":"2011-10-22T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=869"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:56:50","slug":"to-the-oklahoma-city-zoo-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"To the Oklahoma City Zoo and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect storm on Friday, SuperPizzaBoy is on Fall Break, Sweetie needed a break so all of went on a road trip down the Turner Turnpike to see the <b><span style=\"color: orange;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okczoo.com\/\">Oklahoma City Zoo<\/a>.<\/span><\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6268626123\/\" title=\"Rhino by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rhino\" height=\"170\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6268626123_b4c7e420fb-300x102.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite, a ruddy black rhino getting a mud treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6269155964\/\" title=\"IMG_7034 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7034\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6269155964_733970d674-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a sweet little kitty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6269389768\/\" title=\"Picnik collage Bird 1 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picnik collage Bird 1\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6269389768_702c82ca53-300x151.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I forgot to note what kind of bird this is, but I thought him handsome. I guess that it is a him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6269397744\/\" title=\"Picnik collage Turkeys by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picnik collage Turkeys\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6269397744_ac77aff086-300x151.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does he look nervous to you. I think he is worried about his relatives this time of year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6268883587\/\" title=\"Picnik collage Zoo by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picnik collage Zoo\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6268883587_b3b348d53d-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All sorts of wild critters, big and small.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6269416772\/\" title=\"Picnik collage Zoo by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picnik collage Zoo\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6269416772_ff7b80e0c4-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An ostrich took a liking to SPB and followed us around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6269422350\/\" title=\"Picnik collage Ostrich by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picnik collage Ostrich\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6269422350_b8f7489517-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love pumpkins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6268902447\/\" title=\"Picnik collage pumpkins by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picnik collage pumpkins\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6268902447_10f373faa3-300x151.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a few hours at the zoo we refreshed ourselves at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belleislerestaurant.com\/\"><b><span style=\"color: orange;\">Belle Isle Brewery<\/span><\/b><\/a> at 50 Penn Place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6268803893\/\" title=\"IMG_7145 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7145\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6268803893_1ed1e1846c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And walked on down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullcirclebooks.com\/\"><b><span style=\"color: orange;\">Full Circle Bookstore<\/span><\/b><\/a>. We bought more than we should but it is the best bookstore in the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6268774349\/\" title=\"IMG_7150 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7150\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6268774349_caf81e60f4-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPB settled into his favorite chair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6268797787\/\" title=\"IMG_7151 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_7151\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6268797787_b30b73490c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The store has everything, a bunch of Shakespeare above (I don&#8217;t ever buy Shakespeare but they kind of set the tone.)<\/p>\n<p>And then we went home.<\/p>\n<p>I love Road Trips, Zoos, Brew Pubs, and Independent Bookstores. Don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camera-critters.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: orange; font-size: large;\"><b>Camera Critters<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect storm on Friday, SuperPizzaBoy is on Fall Break, Sweetie needed a break so all of went on a road trip down the Turner Turnpike to see the Oklahoma City Zoo. My favorite, a ruddy black rhino getting a mud treatment. What a sweet little kitty. I forgot to note what kind of bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,178,293,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer","category-books","category-road-trip","category-zoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}