{"id":5040,"date":"2013-06-12T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2013-07-02T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:09:31","slug":"conservation-carousel-at-the-national-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/conservation-carousel-at-the-national-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Carousel at the National Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we took our first trip of the year to the National Zoo in Washington DC. \u00a0It was a great day &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day actually&#8230; and I&#8217;ve got quite a few fun pictures. \u00a0Today I&#8217;ll just share a few I took of one of the newest attractions, the &#8220;Conservation Carousel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5041\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-.jpg 900w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson--300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, I didn&#8217;t actually take a picture of the whole carousel. \u00a0Strange. \u00a0I think I had my macro lens on the camera and would have probably had to stand too far away. \u00a0So today you&#8217;ll get just a few details. \u00a0One thing I love is the non-traditional carousel animals. \u00a0One of my daughters was so excited to find the Panda, of course. \u00a0I think I rode the bee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson--3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson--2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson--5\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the base of each animal is a plaque noting the name of the species and a donor who supported the building of the carousel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5045\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-4.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-4.jpg 900w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every part of the structure is beautifully done. \u00a0Perhaps another reason I was drawn to the details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson--6\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-6.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson--7\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Conservation_Carousel_by_Catina_Anderson-7.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; next time you head to the zoo remember to take along a few extra dollars for a ride on the Conservation Carousel. \u00a0And I guess next time I go to the zoo I will need to take my wide-angle lens and get a shot of the whole carousel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we took our first trip of the year to the National Zoo in Washington DC. \u00a0It was a great day &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day actually&#8230; and I&#8217;ve got quite a few fun pictures. \u00a0Today I&#8217;ll just share a few I took of one of the newest attractions, the &#8220;Conservation Carousel.&#8221; Funny thing is, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,59,726],"tags":[676,677,334,360,362],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-location","category-washington-d-c","category-zooanimals","tag-carousel","tag-conservation-carousel","tag-national-zoo","tag-smithsonian","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}