{"id":9594,"date":"2011-02-23T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2011-02-23T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:34:24","slug":"critters-invade-the-butterfly-conservatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/critters-invade-the-butterfly-conservatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Critters invade the Butterfly Conservatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2987719\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tropical heat of the Butterfly Conservatory played host to some cold-blooded fun over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The popular Niagara Parks attraction re-opened to the public Saturday after being closed for renovations.<\/p>\n<p>On the opening day guest list was a menagerie of critters from Little Ray&#8217;s Reptile Zoo including a 14-metre-long python, an alligator and a giant snapping turtle.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Dungey, known as Caiman Kevin to the audience, hosted a series of interactive shows over the holiday weekend aimed at scientific education and animal awareness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all hands on and interactive,&#8221; he said, while holding an albino reticulated python.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just don&#8217;t often get a chance to see these animals up close.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The tropical heat of the Butterfly Conservatory played host to some cold-blooded fun over the weekend. The popular Niagara Parks attraction re-opened to the public Saturday after being closed for renovations. On the opening day guest list was a menagerie of critters from Little Ray&#8217;s Reptile Zoo including a 14-metre-long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[5169,4935,133,5171,5154,124,5172,5170,5164,5166,41,132,99,255,3546,5167,5165,5168,5173,2854],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-events","tag-alligator","tag-audience","tag-butterfly-conservatory","tag-caiman-kevin","tag-family-day","tag-holiday-weekend","tag-interactive","tag-kevin-dungey","tag-little-ray","tag-little-rays-reptile-zoo","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-opening-day","tag-python","tag-reptile-zoo","tag-snapping-turtle","tag-tropical-heat","tag-weekend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}