{"id":274,"date":"2011-05-31T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2011-09-02T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:47:08","slug":"memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to do, what to do. Three day weekends are a tricky, there is a ton of things do but trying to find that balance of activities that are fun and\u00a0sandwiching\u00a0it all between lunch and dinner can be a\u00a0challenge\u00a0with kids. We started the festivities on Saturday with a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juanoxido\/sets\/72157626832878410\/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers market<\/a>, bowling on Sunday and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juanoxido\/sets\/72157626725871481\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Paso Zoo<\/a> on\u00a0Monday. The Zoo has several new additions including zebras,\u00a0giraffes\u00a0, lions and a very\u00a0lively sea lion. To\u00a0accommodate\u00a0all these new animals the zoo expanded into the area where the old Dudley field once was, home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juanoxido\/sets\/72157626846514774\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diablos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Oh Hi there!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3096\/5780861009_24dee46da3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"384\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh Hi there!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We ended the day with a walk by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juanoxido\/sets\/72157626722562953\/with\/5779693486\/\" target=\"_blank\">river.<\/a> The boys dig walking along the jogging path and with it being so close to the house there is no excuse not to do it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Tree at Sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3067\/5779693486_9814ceae77_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big tree at sunset<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do, what to do. Three day weekends are a tricky, there is a ton of things do but trying to find that balance of activities that are fun and\u00a0sandwiching\u00a0it all between lunch and dinner can be a\u00a0challenge\u00a0with kids. We started the festivities on Saturday with a trip to the farmers market, bowling on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[68,10,67],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-ardovinos-desert-crossing","tag-el-paso","tag-zoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MdZY-4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}