{"id":6929,"date":"2013-09-02T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/channel57.org\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:16:07","slug":"the-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=6929","title":{"rendered":"THE NATIONAL PARKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/parks1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6930\" src=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/parks1-300x87.jpg\" alt=\"parks1\" width=\"300\" height=\"87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/parks1-300x87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/parks1.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>AMERICA&#8217;S BEST IDEA<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>THE SCRIPTURE OF NATURE (1851-1890)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>THURSDAY, JUNE 11 @ 7:00PM &amp; 11:00PM<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s national parks are a treasure house of nature&#8217;s superlatives \u2013 84 million acres of the most stunning landscapes anyone has ever seen. They became the last refuge for magnificent species of animals that otherwise would have vanished forever; today, they remain a refuge for human beings seeking to replenish their spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The national parks embody a radical idea, as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence, born in the United States nearly a century after its creation. It is a truly democratic idea, that the magnificent natural wonders of the land should be available not to a privileged few, but to everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/nationalparks\/history\/ep1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICA&#8217;S BEST IDEA THE SCRIPTURE OF NATURE (1851-1890) THURSDAY, JUNE 11 @ 7:00PM &amp; 11:00PM America&#8217;s national parks are a treasure house of nature&#8217;s superlatives \u2013 84 million acres of the most stunning landscapes anyone has ever seen. They became the last refuge for magnificent species of animals that otherwise would have vanished forever; today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=6929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE NATIONAL PARKS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22584,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/22584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}