{"id":306,"date":"2010-08-22T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.cottee.org\/2010\/08\/chester-zoo\/"},"modified":"2010-08-22T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T16:15:00","slug":"chester-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":">Chester Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:8747F07C-CDE8-481f-B0DF-C6CFD074BF67:b5f94f3e-69d4-4885-9072-d67079312baf\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_CWGtck4wwhI\/THFNC1zvONI\/AAAAAAAAEB4\/-6wk5_z0I1Y\/IMG_0498-8x6.jpg?imgmax=800\" title=\"Yes, she's enjoying it\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_CWGtck4wwhI\/THFNE8r2YJI\/AAAAAAAAEB8\/h1EM15k3h2s\/IMG_0498%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800\" width=\"239\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Headed to Chester Zoo today, not been there for a year or so. Birthday treat for Alisa (four on Tuesday) and she really enjoyed, as did we all. As a grumpy old man I do wonder why things are so expensive. Five of us meant a family ticket plus another child ticket. And by default they give you the price with a 10% voluntary contribution added came to \u00a367.45. They do ask if that\u2019s OK but the pressure is then on you to decline and feel like a grumpy git. <\/p>\n<p>If you ever go to the Zoo can I recommend the bats and the butterflies. OK, they don\u2019t sound the exciting but both get you close to the action. Exhausted now, time for some cider.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9210244490645736884-472061417645124157?l=blog.cottee.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> Headed to Chester Zoo today, not been there for a year or so. Birthday treat for Alisa (four on Tuesday) and she really enjoyed, as did we all. As a grumpy old man I do wonder why things are so expensive. Five of us meant a family ticket plus another child ticket. And by default they give you the price with a 10% voluntary contribution added came to \u00a367.45. They do ask if that\u2019s OK but the pressure is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/cottee.org\/?p=306\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldsite","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}