{"id":556,"date":"2009-09-20T21:25:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-09-20T21:25:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:25:30","slug":"happy-ozzie-and-explorer-lottie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ozzie and Explorer Lottie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar is now 8 weeks old, and beginning to develop a character all of his own now. We have been so busy with him and Lottie, that I haven&#8217;t been taking as many photo&#8217;s and video&#8217;s as I did when Lottie was born &#8211; it&#8217;s about time I got my finger out then!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6667456&#038;server=vimeo.com&#038;show_title=1&#038;show_byline=0&#038;show_portrait=0&#038;color=FF7700&#038;fullscreen=1\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6667456&#038;server=vimeo.com&#038;show_title=1&#038;show_byline=0&#038;show_portrait=0&#038;color=FF7700&#038;fullscreen=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A short video of a happy Oscar getting to know some of his new animal friends.<\/p>\n<p>And a few new photo&#8217;s of Oscar &#8211; before he outgrows everything in his wardrobe&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300032a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-561\" title=\"He's not this serious all the time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300032a-Medium-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"He's not this serious all the time\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He&#039;s not this serious all the time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-562\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300015a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-562\" title=\"&quot;Stick yer tongue oot!!&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300015a-Medium-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Stick yer tongue oot!!&quot;\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Stick yer tongue oot!!&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300033a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-563\" title=\"Turning right for some reason...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300033a-Medium-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Turning right for some reason...\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turning right for some reason...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300014a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-564\" title=\"Oh no - he's back to serious again!!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300014a-Medium-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"Oh no - he's back to serious again!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh no - he&#039;s back to serious again!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300037a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-565\" title=\"Maybe he's not serious, just thoughtful!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300037a-Medium-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maybe he's not serious, just thoughtful!\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maybe he&#039;s not serious, just thoughtful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had a little excursion out on Saturday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffordshire.gov.uk\/environment\/e-land\/Countryside\/OpenSpaces\/OpenSpacesDeepHayes.htm\">Deep Hayes Country Park<\/a> near Leek, in the Staffordshire Moorlands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-557\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300051a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-557\" title=\"Lottie strides on...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300051a-Medium-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lottie strides on...\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lottie strides on...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a really nice little park, and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=leek&amp;sll=53.070605,-2.19203&amp;sspn=0.007684,0.016544&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=53.075568,-2.060795&amp;spn=0.007683,0.024719&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\">pretty tucked away<\/a> so it doesn&#8217;t get too busy &#8211; even on the weekends.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300053a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-560\" title=\"Everyone has to wait for Lottie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300053a-Medium-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"Everyone has to wait for Lottie\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone has to wait for Lottie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lottie loved spotting the Ducks, Birds, one wild Rabbit (underneath a car in the car-park &#8211; bizarrely) and the Cows and Horses on the road to the Park.<\/p>\n<p>She is also equally intrigued by plants &#8211; especially anything she can pull out of the ground and eat!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300071a-Medium.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-558\" title=\"In the night garden?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/S7300071a-Medium-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"In the night garden?\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the night garden?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like many of our local Parks, it has a very industrial past. It was originally a reservoir, built in 1848 by the Potteries Waterworks Company to compensate the River Churnet for loss of water in serving the mills downstream, and also to supply water for Hanley, Burslem and Tunstall. The reservoir was abandoned in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar is now 8 weeks old, and beginning to develop a character all of his own now. We have been so busy with him and Lottie, that I haven&#8217;t been taking as many photo&#8217;s and video&#8217;s as I did when Lottie was born &#8211; it&#8217;s about time I got my finger out then!! http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6667456&#038;server=vimeo.com&#038;show_title=1&#038;show_byline=0&#038;show_portrait=0&#038;color=FF7700&#038;fullscreen=1 A &#8230; <a title=\"Happy Ozzie and Explorer Lottie\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/?p=556\" aria-label=\"Read more about Happy Ozzie and Explorer Lottie\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}