{"id":415,"date":"2010-07-31T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-07-31T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T07:33:00","slug":"zoo-time-quarter-past-crepuscular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Zoo time, quarter past crepuscular&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we went over to Edinburgh Zoo for the special adopters&#8217; night.\u00a0 It was a lovely evening, there was a much calmer atmosphere about the place and it was grand seeing the animals pack up for the night, as it were.\u00a0 We saw the newly arrived sun bears, and I laughed when one dad said to child &#8220;Ye have to be quiet, the bears dinny talk much,&#8221; only to have the two incumbents turn on each other with frankly scary roars.\u00a0\u00a0 I think Paul&#8217;s pictures will be better than mine, since he has a stick thing with which to steady his camera.\u00a0 I set mine up to 800 ISO (yes, I <em>have <\/em>just found the knob for that and it&#8217;s like firing it up to, well, 11) which was great for fading light but rubbish for movement.<\/p>\n<p>However, I was the only person taking shots when his nibs was up on the Skywalk.\u00a0 This is a trail in the air of ropes and bars which is some 15 feet off the ground.\u00a0 There are harnesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-416\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-416\" title=\"skywalk1\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/skywalk1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Paul goes to the dark side\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul goes to the dark side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-417\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-417\" title=\"skywalk2\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/skywalk2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scary it will be\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scary it will be<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-418 \" title=\"skywalk31\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/skywalk31-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"this does actually leave me speechless\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This does actually leave me speechless<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Skywalk, Luke Skywalker. Do keep up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we went over to Edinburgh Zoo for the special adopters&#8217; night.\u00a0 It was a lovely evening, there was a much calmer atmosphere about the place and it was grand seeing the animals pack up for the night, as it were.\u00a0 We saw the newly arrived sun bears, and I laughed when one dad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}