{"id":25988,"date":"2026-10-27T00:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=25988"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:44:17","slug":"national-aviary-was-designated-honorary-national-status-in-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=25988","title":{"rendered":"National Aviary Was Designated Honorary National Status in 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28105\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28105\" class=\"wp-image-28105 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FranklinSpectacleOwlChick-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franklin, Spectacle Owl Chick, at National Aviary<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>National Aviary was designated Honorary National Status in 1993<\/strong>. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the aviary was founded in 1952. It experienced difficult financial times, but now it seems to have a strong foundation. It is presently the custodian of around 500 birds, many of which are endangered or threatened. It is also home to the adorable Wookiee, a two-toed sloth. Features include the Wetlands, Condor Court, and Penguin Point. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Aviary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Aviary was designated Honorary National Status in 1993. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the aviary was founded in 1952. It experienced difficult financial times, but now it seems to have a strong foundation. It is presently the custodian of around 500 birds, many of which are endangered or threatened. It is also home to the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=25988' 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":[],"class_list":["post-25988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","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\/25988","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=25988"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28106,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988\/revisions\/28106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}