{"id":14720,"date":"2026-09-28T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14720"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:30:56","slug":"padre-island-national-seashore-was-established-in-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14720","title":{"rendered":"Padre Island National Seashore Was Established in 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15184\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15184\" class=\"wp-image-15184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Padre-Island-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Padre Island National Seashore\" width=\"263\" height=\"148\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Padre Island National Seashore<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Padre Island National Seashore was established in 1962.\u00a0<\/strong>Located along the Gulf of Mexico, the national seashore is the longest unprotected barrier island in the world. Five species of sea turtles (Kemp&#8217;s ridleys, loggerheads, leatherbacks, hawksbills, and greens) nest on the island. More than 380 species of birds live on the island or migrate through the area. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/pais\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Padre Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padre Island National Seashore was established in 1962.\u00a0Located along the Gulf of Mexico, the national seashore is the longest unprotected barrier island in the world. Five species of sea turtles (Kemp&#8217;s ridleys, loggerheads, leatherbacks, hawksbills, and greens) nest on the island. More than 380 species of birds live on the island or migrate through the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14720' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5638,1806,1811,1812,1808,1810,1809,1130,1805,1807,5892,257],"class_list":["post-14720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5638","tag-barrier-island","tag-greens","tag-hawksbills","tag-kemps-ridleys","tag-leatherbacks","tag-loggerheads","tag-mexico","tag-padre-island-national-seashore","tag-sea-turtles","tag-september-28","tag-texas","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14720"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29750,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720\/revisions\/29750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}