{"id":477584,"date":"2026-05-10T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477584\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:18:13","slug":"wexford-residents-give-alpaca-friends-a-welcome-return-to-local-nursing-home-the-smile-on-their-faces-said-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477584\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford residents give alpaca friends a welcome return to local nursing home \u2013 \u2018The smile on their faces said it all\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Staff at Oakfield Nursing Home welcomed Frank and Stan from K2Alpacas for a special visit.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fe035738-f50f-456e-98fe-306f4b8ca4da.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Staff at Oakfield Nursing Home welcomed Frank and Stan from K2Alpacas for a special visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Residents in Wexford were once again treated to a special visit as two alpacas waltzed down the corridors of a local nursing home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u2018Alpaca Joe\u2019 returned to Oakfield Nursing Home in Courtown on Wednesday, April 29 to welcome his two most sociable alpacas, Frank and Stan, to residents who got to pet, interact and look into their larger than life eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at Oakfield Nursing Home welcomed Frank and Stan from K2Alpacas for a special visit. Residents in Wexford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[807,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,200249],"class_list":{"0":"post-477584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-alan-white","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-wexford-life"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116549773794514551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}