{"id":323,"date":"2026-11-10T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:10:10","slug":"badlands-national-park-became-a-national-park-in-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Badlands National Park Became a National Park in 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/33\/Badlandsnps.jpg\/120px-Badlandsnps.jpg\" alt=\"Thumbnail for version as of 13:19, 19 February 2005\" width=\"204\" height=\"136\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badlands<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Badlands National Park<\/strong> became a national park in 1978. This South Dakota park encompasses 244,000 acres and is home to many animals, including bison, bighorn sheep and black-footed ferrets. The park website has amazing videos, photos, and activities for children: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/badl\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Badlands National Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badlands National Park became a national park in 1978. This South Dakota park encompasses 244,000 acres and is home to many animals, including bison, bighorn sheep and black-footed ferrets. The park website has amazing videos, photos, and activities for children: Badlands National Park.<\/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":[5641,3734,4776,1119],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5641","tag-badlands-national-park","tag-november-10","tag-south-dakota","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\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26777,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/26777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}