{"id":4460,"date":"2012-07-16T21:21:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T04:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2017-06-08T00:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:42:18","slug":"erik-the-rhino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/07\/16\/erik-the-rhino\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik the Rhino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of last week&#8217;s trip to San Diego, including a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdzsafaripark.org\/\">San Diego Safari Park<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We got to the safari park at opening time and Audrey went immediately to the bat house.  The girl is not shy around the creepy-crawlies.<\/li>\n<li>Following the bats we were first into the lorikeet enclosure, where Audrey was swarmed by the hungry buggers.  Sadly I somehow overexposed the pictures, but in three trips (nectar in hand) we met about twenty of the resident birds in a very up close and personal way.<\/li>\n<li>From the lorikeets it was on to goat brushing, since girls like having goats snuggle up to them and use their big goat eyes to say &#8220;will you please brush me?&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>There may have also been some goose feeding.  If you&#8217;re getting the sense that we went for the &#8220;hands on&#8221; trip, you would not be mistaken.<\/li>\n<li>As temperatures approached levels usually reserved for blast furnaces our trip became a bit less adventurous, but still included most of the remaining animals of the park.  There may have also been a delicious pudding break, since there&#8217;s always time for pudding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/san_diego_lorikeets_2012_07b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Lorikeets\" class=\"img-main\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Maximum lorikeet landings-on-Ryan at once was five, which is most likely a new world record.  Photo by Audrey.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of last week&#8217;s trip to San Diego, including a visit to the San Diego Safari Park: We got to the safari park at opening time and Audrey went immediately to the bat house. The girl is not shy around the creepy-crawlies. Following the bats we were first into the lorikeet enclosure, where Audrey was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/07\/16\/erik-the-rhino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erik the Rhino&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11041,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}