{"id":488126,"date":"2026-03-21T19:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:44:41","slug":"happy-birthday-dillon-and-doris-the-armadillos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488126\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Dillon and Doris the armadillos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meet Dillon and Doris, two elderly armadillos who celebrated a big birthday this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They turned 19, and while that may not seem very old to humans, armadillos typically only live to 15-18 in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair live in Telford Exotic Zoo in Shropshire, and keepers there celebrated with a big bash earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said the animals were firm favourites with visitors, with this big birthday marking &#8220;an important milestone&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet Dillon and Doris, two elderly armadillos who celebrated a big birthday this week. They turned 19, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-488126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}