{"id":513,"date":"2011-06-23T14:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2011-06-23T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:05:36","slug":"battersea-park-zoo-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/battersea-park-zoo-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Battersea Park Zoo Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-514\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/batterseazooparty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-514\" title=\"batterseazooparty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/batterseazooparty-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Friends of Battersea Park BBQ at the Zoo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BBQ at the Zoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The annual Friends of Battersea Park <em>BBQ at the Zoo<\/em> event took place last Monday 13th June and we were lucky enough to be able to go &#8211; the event was sold out.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed a private &#8216;after-hours&#8217; view of the animals and play area, and the BBQ food and entertainment was excellent.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo, the event was very well attended, thanks in part to the very good weather.<\/p>\n<p>Although there weren&#8217;t many children along, there were entertainments laid on, as if the zoo itself wasn&#8217;t enough. Here a <a title=\"Jenny Sunshine Face Painting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jennysunshine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">local facepainter<\/a> generously gave her time to help the fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennysunshine.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-515\" title=\"facepainterwork2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/facepainterwork2-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Face Painter at work\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/facepainterwork2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/facepainterwork2-1024x613.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Friends of Battersea Park BBQ at the Zoo event took place last Monday 13th June and we were lucky enough to be able to go &#8211; the event was sold out. We enjoyed a private &#8216;after-hours&#8217; view of the animals and play area, and the BBQ food and entertainment was excellent. As you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/battersea-park-zoo-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battersea Park Zoo Party&#8221;<\/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":[5],"tags":[127,126,89],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locally","tag-battersea-park","tag-bbq","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}