{"id":126872,"date":"2026-03-01T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126872\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:14:07","slug":"erie-zoo-opens-for-the-season-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126872\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Zoo Opens for the Season | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday may have been cold and snowy, but that didn&#8217;t stop people from enjoying the first day of the Erie Zoo season.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"zoo.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1196\" height=\"546\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The zoo opened for its 2026 season at 10:00 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh snow didn&#8217;t stop families from making their first zoo trip of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Some animals were out, while others were keeping warm inside.<\/p>\n<p>The official zoo kick off is next weekend from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Admission will be free that entire day, and people can enjoy some breakfast treats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday may have been cold and snowy, but that didn&#8217;t stop people from enjoying the first day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2600,524,136,138,137,12644,3466,49497,27399,4223],"class_list":["post-126872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-animals","tag-community","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-pa","tag-erie-zoo","tag-new-season","tag-opening-day","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}