{"id":2980,"date":"2026-03-01T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:42:39","slug":"yellowstone-national-park-was-established-in-1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone National Park Was Established in 1872"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14368\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14368\" class=\"wp-image-14368 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Yellowstone-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellowstone National Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Yellowstone National Park was established in\u00a0<\/strong><strong>1872<\/strong>. It was the country&#8217;s first national park and perhaps the world&#8217;s first national park. Comprising over 2,200,000 acres, it is mostly in Wyoming, but portions of the park extend into Idaho and Montana. It is known for beautiful vistas, plentiful wildlife, and interesting geothermal features. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. Children could visit an Internet site, especially the portions for children and teachers, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellowstone National Park was established in\u00a01872. It was the country&#8217;s first national park and perhaps the world&#8217;s first national park. Comprising over 2,200,000 acres, it is mostly in Wyoming, but portions of the park extend into Idaho and Montana. It is known for beautiful vistas, plentiful wildlife, and interesting geothermal features. It became a UNESCO <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2980' 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":[4601,533,5354,1991,615,1639],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4601","tag-idaho","tag-march-1","tag-montana","tag-wyoming","tag-yellowstone-national-park","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\/2980","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=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29202,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/29202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}