{"id":2158,"date":"2016-11-03T06:38:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2016-11-03T06:43:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:43:17","slug":"zooboo-2016-is-in-the-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/zooboo-2016-is-in-the-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"ZooBoo 2016 Is In the History Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 29th Edition of Como Friends' ZooBoo is in the history books, and it was a good one. \u00a0Over four nights just over 16,000 guests passed through the gates to help Como Zoo grow while helping themselves to some goodies.<\/p>\n<p>This<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/zooboo-path.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2161 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/zooboo-path-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"zooboo-path\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/zooboo-path-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/zooboo-path-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/zooboo-path-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/zooboo-path.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> was the Nokomis' 23rd year helping out. The first station, Halloween, is our first stop each year and a great way to spend an evening with a few thousand new, close personal friends. \u00a0Thanks to everyone who could make it. \u00a0Special thanks to Art Johnson, our one and only perfect four-night volunteer character.<\/p>\n<p>Next \u00a0year will be the 30th ZooBoo and if all goes as expected, will be a big party to celebrate. \u00a0Funds from that event will help to kick off work on the new Pinniped Plaza, replacing the Seal Island and Sparky Stage area with new performance and year-round display spaces.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pinniped-Plaza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2162 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pinniped-Plaza-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"pinniped-plaza\" width=\"362\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pinniped-Plaza-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pinniped-Plaza-250x150.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pinniped-Plaza-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Pinniped-Plaza.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come join us next October for ZooBoo 30, and thanks again for all you did to help out in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 29th Edition of Como Friends&#8217; ZooBoo is in the history books, and it was a good one.  Over four nights just over 16,000 guests passed through the gates to help Como Zoo grow while helping themselves to some goodies. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/zooboo-2016-is-in-the-history-books\/\">More inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-service","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 16:49:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussnokomis.org\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}