{"id":848,"date":"2010-08-02T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2010-08-02T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:14:18","slug":"the-zoo-with-zia-nonno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"The ZOO with Zia &#038; Nonno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Zia (Rosaria) took the girls to the <a title=\"The Philadelphia Zoo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philadelphiazoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Zoo<\/a> with Nonno, in celebration of his 81st birthday. The goal was to ride in the <a title=\"ZOO Balloon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philadelphiazoo.org\/zoo\/Rides-and-more\/Channel-6-Zooballoon.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 6 Balloon<\/a> as well as ride the camels. Unfortunately, it was too windy for the balloon, and Nonno&#8217;s hip&#8217;s couldn&#8217;t get around the Camel&#8217;s back, but Zia &amp; the girls were able to mount the beasts. They enjoyed every other activity offered there, and their high point was interacting with the gorilla who waved &amp; blew kisses.  Here are a few pictures (of the <strong>many<\/strong>) that Elisa took.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/E_G_Nonno_Zoo_7.30.10.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"Gabriella, Nonno &amp; Elisa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/E_G_Nonno_Zoo_7.30.10.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriella, Nonno &amp; Elisa\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"attachment wp-att-849 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Nonno_Parrot_1200.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"Nonno feeding the parrot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Nonno_Parrot_1200.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Nonno feeding the parrot\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"attachment wp-att-850 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/E_parrot_1200.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"Elisa feeding the parrot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/E_parrot_1200.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Elisa feeding the parrot\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"attachment wp-att-851 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/G_parrot_1200.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"Gabriella feeding the parrot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/G_parrot_1200.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriella feeding the parrot\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-852 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Zias_New_Boyfriend_1200.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"Zia&#039;s New Suitor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Zias_New_Boyfriend_1200.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Zia&#039;s New Suitor\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"attachment wp-att-853 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gab_n_Gor_1200.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"Gabriella reflects the Gorillas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gab_n_Gor_1200.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriella reflects the Gorillas\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"attachment wp-att-854 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Embarrassed_Orang_1200.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"How embarassing!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Embarrassed_Orang_1200.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"How embarassing!\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"attachment wp-att-855 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Screaming_bird_1200.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics848]\" title=\"An annoying, screaming bird\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Screaming_bird_1200.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"An annoying, screaming bird\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" class=\"attachment wp-att-856 alignleft\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Zia (Rosaria) took the girls to the Philadelphia Zoo with Nonno, in celebration of his 81st birthday. The goal was to ride in the Channel 6 Balloon as well as ride the camels. Unfortunately, it was too windy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/?p=848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13,10,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisa-gabriella","category-family","category-photos","category-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maceras.xpozd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}