{"id":263,"date":"2009-05-24T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2009-05-24T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T16:43:28","slug":"bank-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/bank-holiday-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Holiday Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gee, we don’t post much! Haven’t done much. This is a busy year and we haven’t done any travelling or anything much of interest. However, it’s a bank holiday weekend and we actually have wonderful weather so we went out to the London Wetlands Centre<\/a> at Barnes. Spent about 6 hours walking around, but only about half the site.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not that big but there’s loads to just sit and watch, and this time of the year there are loads of young around. And frogs. Lots of frogs! Joe should have photos up later.<\/p>\n

Next trip is to Scotland for Joe to do a photography course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gee, we don’t post much! Haven’t done much. This is a busy year and we haven’t done any travelling or anything much of interest. However, it’s a bank holiday weekend and we actually have wonderful weather so we went out to the London Wetlands Centre at Barnes. Spent about 6 hours walking around, but only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-4f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/froggies\/","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":0},"title":"Froggies","date":"Sunday, 27 May 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Got up and headed for the Natural History Museum. Which had an exhibit on frogs! Lots and lots of froggies. All cute. Over 200 cute froggies. Only Joe made me go through that bit a bit too quickly. It was interesting, we headed in the back entrance, finally found where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Photo"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":168,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/joe-the-intrepid-explorer\/","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":1},"title":"Joe the Intrepid Explorer","date":"Friday, 27 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We had to leave Asa Wright so I am now blogging from the Hilton in Port of Spain. Scenery is not nearly as impressive. On the way to see turtles we saw several birds and even got a good look and photo of a hawk. Interesting drive to the beach.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":166,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/frogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":2},"title":"Frogs!","date":"Thursday, 26 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Did I mention we are in a rain forest? During rainy season? The thing I didn't put in the blog yesterday was that it rained. Poured yesterday. Thunder and heavy rain. We walked between rain storms. So I was expecting lots of rain still today. Instead we woke up to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":465,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/jubilee-weekend-at-wells-next-the-sea\/","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":3},"title":"Jubilee Weekend At Wells-Next-The-Sea","date":"Sunday, 10 June 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Spent the jubilee long bank holiday in North Norfolk, visiting\u00a0Bird sanctuaries and spending some time on the beach. Went to the RSPB site, Titchwell Marsh in the pouring rain and winds, but saw avocets and possibly a marsh harrier, along with the usual gulls, common terns, oystercatchers and ducks. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Dyslexic Discourse"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":163,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/holiday\/","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":4},"title":"Holiday!","date":"Tuesday, 24 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"And we are on holiday! Finally. Woke up after a restless night's sleep - the rainforest is a noisy place and the birds wake up early. So we weren't feeling 100% today. Skipped the orientation walk and will do that tomorrow. The plan for the day was to find out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":167,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/birds-turtles-and-frogs-oh-my\/","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":5},"title":"Birds, Turtles, and Frogs, oh my!","date":"Friday, 27 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last day at Asa Wright and we are sitting on the veranda again watching the rain and birds. Last night was fun. After a restful afternoon, napping and taking it easy, we were collected and driven down to Matura. We parked and walked along the beach a bit while dinner\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}