{"id":40421,"date":"2026-08-25T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40421"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:00:21","slug":"happy-110th-birthday-to-the-u-s-national-park-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40421","title":{"rendered":"Happy 110th Birthday to the U.S. National Park Service!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170712-Parks-collage-002-w8-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40440 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170712-Parks-collage-002-w8-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170712-Parks-collage-002-w8-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170712-Parks-collage-002-w8-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170712-Parks-collage-002-w8-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170712-Parks-collage-002-w8-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\">The National Park Service was officially established August 25, 1916. We had national parks long before they were brought together under the umbrella of the newly created NPS. National parks are often referred to as &#8220;America&#8217;s Best Idea&#8221;.\u00a0 I agree. One of my life&#8217;s great joys is to visit and photograph our national parks.\u00a0 It began when my brother and I were very small boys and our parents took us camping at Rocky Mountain National Park and Mesa Verde National Park. One of my earliest childhood memories is staying in one of the many NPS white canvas tents erected on a wooden platforms at Mesa Verde.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Park Service was officially established August 25, 1916. We had national parks long before they were brought together under the umbrella of the newly created NPS. National parks are often referred to as &#8220;America&#8217;s Best Idea&#8221;.\u00a0 I agree. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40421\">Continue reading <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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40441,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40421\/revisions\/40441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}