{"id":31872,"date":"2017-11-07T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=31872"},"modified":"2017-11-10T08:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:25:29","slug":"support-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/11\/07\/support-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Support our National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>But do so conditionally.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I wrote about the need to support our National Parks <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/05\/02\/our-parks\/ target=_blank>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A recent new request for a donation from the NPS elicited this response from me:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/NPS_01.jpg\" width=\"626\" height=\"806\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/NPS_02.jpg\" width=\"626\" height=\"806\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you believe, as do I, that this is how our National Parks should look, write them along these same lines:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Yosemite_no_crowds.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>How Yosemite should look.<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Suggesting that reading and comprehension skills at the Park System are not the greatest, I got this stock reply:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/NPS_03.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"585\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, at least they got one thing right &#8211; the Parks are for Americans &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But do so conditionally. I wrote about the need to support our National Parks here. A recent new request for a donation from the NPS elicited this response from me: If you believe, as do I, that this is how our National Parks should look, write them along these same lines: How Yosemite should look. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/11\/07\/support-national-parks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Support our 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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31877,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31872\/revisions\/31877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}