{"id":14214,"date":"2012-08-14T16:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2012-08-14T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:33:39","slug":"animals-loose-in-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahholt.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/animals-loose-in-the-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals loose in the zoo."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I was a chaperone for Noah’s class trip to the Prospect Park Zoo. Before we left, Ms. Yelena briefed the kids on how they should act.<\/p>\n

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A surfeit\u00c2\u00a0of kids making faces into my phone.<\/p>\n

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A muster of kids on the bus.<\/p>\n

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A rafter of kids looking at something, I don’t remember.<\/p>\n

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A cartload of kids look at a congress of Hamadryas Baboons.<\/p>\n

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A romp of kids try to destroying bird eggs.<\/p>\n

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A\u00c2\u00a0rookery of kids drawing.<\/p>\n

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Bat anatomy (a group of bats is called a colony, boring).<\/p>\n

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A shoal of fish getting harassed by a skulk of kids.<\/p>\n

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Sea lion feeding.<\/p>\n

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Tseday’s sister. I don’t need a reason.<\/p>\n

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Then the rain started.<\/p>\n

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A cackle of kids eating lunch a shrewdness of adults hoped\u00c2\u00a0the rain would let up.<\/p>\n

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Noah C.<\/p>\n

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The rain didn’t let up. Downpour.<\/p>\n

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It was a fun\/wet bus ride back to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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