{"id":271127,"date":"2025-04-11T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T05:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=271127"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:03:23","slug":"hippo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=271127","title":{"rendered":"Hippo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/dtf-chat-hippo.jpg\" alt=\"chat\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I love Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, but IDK if I&#8217;ll ever make it to Thailand to see her in person.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I always have my <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/pic-stitch-collage-editor\/id454768104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pic Stitch<\/a> app cued up whenever the opportunity arises to do a side-by-side comparison \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/poppy-pygmy-hippo.jpg\" alt=\"poppy pygmy hippo\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>Another pygmy hippo, <a href=\"https:\/\/metrorichmondzoo.com\/animals\/poppy-the-pygmy-hippo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poppy<\/a>, was born last December at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JPjLxeH7MVh5zGQR6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metro Richmond Zoo<\/a> in Virginia. Domestic flights to Richmond from LAX are pretty cheap, plus I have hella Southwest points. Anyone want to go with me on a weekend trip to Richmond? \ud83d\ude06 If pygmy hippos aren&#8217;t your thing, CNN Travel also named Richmond #1 on their list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/travel\/americas-best-towns-to-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America&#8217;s Best Towns to Visit<\/a> in 2024!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I love Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, but IDK if I&#8217;ll ever make it to Thailand to see her in person. Also, I always have my Pic Stitch app cued up whenever the opportunity arises to do a side-by-side comparison \ud83d\ude06 Another pygmy hippo, Poppy, was born last December at Metro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,181,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-chat","category-moo-deng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271127"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271146,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271127\/revisions\/271146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}