{"id":42138,"date":"2014-01-18T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bao_bao_the_national_zoos_giant_panda_cub_makes_her_public_debut\/"},"modified":"2014-01-18T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T22:05:04","slug":"bao_bao_the_national_zoos_giant_panda_cub_makes_her_public_debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42138","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Bao Bao, the National Zoo\u2019s giant panda cub, makes her public debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Washam, who drove 500 miles from Lima, Ohio, to see the panda\u2019s debut, had tears in her eyes as looked at the photos she took in her two minutes at the window watching Bao Bao.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s so beautiful,\u201d\u009d she said. \u201cI feel she\u2019s looking at me&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>[Lisa] is pursuing a doctorate in education, and she said watching the panda cam has helped relieve some of the stress. In the past year, she said, she has visited all four U.S. zoos with giant pandas as well as one in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a better way to relax than drinking,\u201d\u009d Washam said. \u201cIt\u2019s very peaceful.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/panda-bao-bao-debuts-to-the-public-today\/2014\/01\/17\/6c1979cc-7f8e-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Washam, who drove 500 miles from Lima, Ohio, to see the panda\u2019s debut, had tears in her eyes as looked at the photos she took in her two minutes at the window watching Bao Bao. \u201cShe\u2019s so beautiful,\u201d\u009d she<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42138\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,189,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-animals","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}