{"id":9005,"date":"2020-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/werribee-zoo-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:00:00","slug":"werribee-zoo-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/werribee-zoo-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Werribee Zoo Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Government\u2019s announcement of an $84 million upgrade for Werribee Open Range Zoo is great news for residents of Manor Lakes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Along with the excitement of having elephants on our doorstep, the upgrade will boost employment and tourism in the area.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to the Premier\u2019s media release, \u201cthe expansion will create almost 350 local jobs \u2013 including 90 direct jobs looking after animals and visitors once the exhibits are up and running \u2013 as well as increasing the number of visitors and tourists through the gates from more than 680,000 in 2018\/19 to one million visitors annually\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The upgrade is also good news for the elephants, who will be relocating from Melbourne Zoo to be free to roam in a magnificent new 22 hectare elephant sanctuary. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Government\u2019s announcement of an $84 million upgrade for Werribee Open Range Zoo is great news for residents of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}