{"id":364,"date":"2010-06-17T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=364"},"modified":"2011-10-28T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:49:42","slug":"san-diego-zoo-and-the-natural-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/17\/san-diego-zoo-and-the-natural-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day at the San Diego Zoo and the Natural History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"570\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pacsworlds.com\\\/blogs\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/17\\\/san-diego-zoo-and-the-natural-history-museum\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:21460605}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 570px; height: 191px;\" data-original-width=\"570\" data-original-height=\"191\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 285px; 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height: 187px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>As these two hand stamps show (turtle on the left, dinosaur on the right), I spent the morning into the early afternoon at the San Diego Zoo with Mary and Diana, eating lunch at the Front Street Caf\u00e9 inside the Zoo. \u00a0Then spent a couple of hours at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park, focusing on taking more pictures of the dinosaur exhibits and watching the 3D dinosaur documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As these two hand stamps show (turtle on the left, dinosaur on the right), I spent the morning into the early afternoon at the San Diego Zoo with Mary and Diana, eating lunch at the Front Street Caf\u00e9 inside the Zoo. \u00a0Then spent a couple of hours at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/17\/san-diego-zoo-and-the-natural-history-museum\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[180,50,101,178,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-5S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14591,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/07\/13\/lily-pond-reflections\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":0},"title":"Lily Pond Reflections","date":"July 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"After my Early Hours morning at the San Diego Zoo, and before heading over to see the newly opened \"Mammoths and Mastodons\" at the Natural History Museum, I spent some time meandering around and photographing the Lily Pond in Balboa Park.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Balboa Park&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Balboa Park Lily Pond 07-13-13 lo-res","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Balboa-Park-Lily-Pond-07-13-13-lo-res-580x386.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6226,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/28\/naturally-historic-visit-to-a-san-diego-museum\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":1},"title":"Naturally Historic Visit To A San Diego Museum","date":"April 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"After my Zoo visit I walked over to the Natural History Museum and spent a couple of hours there taking pictures and actually learning something. 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