{"id":298651119,"date":"2014-06-19T14:38:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=298651119"},"modified":"2014-06-19T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:38:39","slug":"baltimores-zoo-and-its-metro-but-they-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=298651119","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore&#8217;s Zoo and its Metro (but they don&#8217;t)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Another zing about our mass transit.]<br \/>\n*****************************************************<br \/>\nby Jeff La Noue, Greater Greater Washington<\/p>\n<p>While Washington has a Metro stop with &quot;Zoo&quot; in its name, the Metro subway in Baltimore and its zoo appear to ignore each other.<\/p>\n<p>At the nearby Mondawmin Metro stop, there is scant evidence the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore (Baltimore Zoo) even exists. At the zoo, there&#8217;s little mention of the subway. Meanwhile, the Washington Metro, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, and nearby commercial retailers have a symbiotic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The Woodley Park\/Zoo Metro station and the National Zoo are the same distance as the Baltimore zoo entrance and its nearest subway station, 0.4 miles or a 9 minute walk.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/23086\/the-national-zoo-and-dc-metro-fit-together-so-could-baltimores-zoo-and-its-metro-but-they-dont\/\">https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/23086\/the-national-zoo-and-dc-metro-fit-together-so-could-baltimores-zoo-and-its-metro-but-they-dont\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Another zing about our mass transit.] ***************************************************** by Jeff La Noue, Greater Greater Washington While Washington has a Metro stop with &quot;Zoo&quot; in its name, the Metro subway in Baltimore and its zoo appear to ignore each other. At the nearby Mondawmin Metro stop, there is scant evidence the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=298651119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baltimore&#8217;s Zoo and its Metro (but they don&#8217;t).&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298651119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298651119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298651119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298651119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298651119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298651119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298651119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}