{"id":215,"date":"2004-05-18T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/05\/18\/more-hypocritical-crap\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"more-hypocritical-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/05\/18\/more-hypocritical-crap\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"more hypocritical crap"},"content":{"rendered":"

last week i went to marine world. it was my dad’s company picnic and he had free tickets, so our whole family went and caryn came along. i have mixed feeling about marine world. on one hand, i love animals. going there and checking out giraffes, dolphins, lions etc is really cool. we even got to watch tigers swim *under water*. on the flip side, i kinda thind it’s fucked up to have these animals stuck in small enclosed areas and doing stupid tricks to entertain people. i feel kinda hypocritical for going therea nd having a good time, when i think it’s not the right thing to do. at the same time though, there is this theory that zoos etc are actually good for animals in general. when people (esp children at a young age) actually get to go out and see live animals and interact w\/ them etc, it encourages them in later years to want to help protect them. basically, if humans dont interact w\/ nature, they’ll have no reason to like it and\/or want to preserve it. i guess the animals at these parks end up suffering for the greater good.<\/p>\n

one of the cool things at the park was an enclosed area filled w\/ lorikeets. these are really cool looking vibrantly colored birds. you can buy little cups of nectar, and then the lorikeets will land on you and drink up….<\/p>\n

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the other cool thing about marine world is the roller coasters. this have this one hella cool one where you are accelereated super fast right from the start (instead of slowly being pulled up a hill) and then it shoots you into a vertical corkscrew. the speed that this thing starts off w\/ was so fast!<\/p>\n

all in all it was a cool day. i hardly ever hang out w\/ my family these days except for short 2 or 3 hour blocks for dinner or something, so it was really nice to go and spend the day w\/ them. plus it was cool that caryn got to hang out w\/ them as well. they’re always asking about her, but since she’s gone during the week, they’ve really only met her a couple of times.<\/p>\n

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last week i went to marine world. it was my dad’s company picnic and he had free tickets, so our whole family went and caryn came along. i have mixed feeling about marine world. on one hand, i love animals. going there and checking out giraffes, dolphins, lions etc is really cool. we even got … Continue reading “more hypocritical crap”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}