{"id":9373,"date":"2025-10-20T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9373\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:47:22","slug":"potential-record-attendance-expected-at-thompson-park-boo-at-the-zoo-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9373\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential record attendance expected at Thompson Park \u201cBoo at the Zoo\u201d event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Zoo New York officials are thrilled by possible record setting attendance at their annual Boo at the Zoo event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Held at the Thompson Park Zoo, this spooky event saw the various pens and buildings in Halloween themed getup; a look that lots of people came out to see while receiving candy and marveling at the animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mark Irwin, the Zoo\u2019s Interim Director, says over the weekend the zoo had at least 1,300 visitors. Irwin says it\u2019s usually their biggest event year after year, but this year may have been their biggest so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Irwin hopes the attendance momentum from this weekend continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur whole team we look forward to this and it\u2019s a chance to showcase the zoo in a really fun, kooky spooky kind of way,\u201c said Irwin. \u201dI hope we get some momentum that continues on to the future and we\u2019re doing everything that we can to ensure it does.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Boo at the Zoo is one of Zoo New York\u2019s biggest fundraising events. They don\u2019t yet know how much they\u2019ve earned this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The zoo\u2019s next event is the Winter Wonderlights event held in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Zoo New York officials are thrilled by possible record setting attendance at their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7940,9,11,10,49,51,50,7941,7524,3904],"class_list":{"0":"post-9373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-boo-at-the-zoo","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news","15":"tag-thompson-park","16":"tag-watertown","17":"tag-wwny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}