{"id":16381,"date":"2018-09-23T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=16381"},"modified":"2018-09-23T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T14:08:49","slug":"a-day-at-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/a-day-at-the-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"a day at the zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

on sept. 11th, randy and I went down to the st. louis zoo.\u00a0 he’d never been to any zoo anywhere his entire life, and I had to pick up my friend Toun at the airport, so I thought we’d make a day of it.<\/p>\n

I can’t remember the last time i’d been to this zoo, but I think it might have been at least 20 years ago.\u00a0 I have very mixed feelings about zoos – they make me feel like the animals are in prison, but on the other hand they do a fantastic job of helping animals.\u00a0 I was a little shocked at how many of them are very endangered or almost extinct.<\/p>\n

just the other day, as a matter of fact, I was appalled to hear on the radio that there are only 400,000 elephants left in Africa and poachers kill 40,000 of them a year.\u00a0 so they’ll all be gone in 10 years?\u00a0 ugh.<\/p>\n

on a happier note, here are a few of the many many photos I took at the zoo.\u00a0 I did my best to not take pictures of every single thing, and then I winnowed them down, so here is the beginning of the sampling.<\/p>\n

these turtles were so huge!<\/p>\n

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