{"id":6392,"date":"2026-08-01T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:24:30","slug":"haleakala-national-park-was-created-in-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6392","title":{"rendered":"Haleakala National Park Was Created in 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10536\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10536\" class=\"wp-image-10536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Haleakala-Silversword-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Haleakala Silversword in Full Bloom\" width=\"170\" height=\"227\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haleakala Silversword in Full Bloom<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Haleakala National Park was created in 1961<\/strong>. Carved from the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Maui, this park encompasses the vast, extinct volcano crater Haleakala and the Kipahula wilderness area. The word <em>Haleakala<\/em> means the <em>house of the sun<\/em> in Hawaiian. The park, around 33,265 acres, hosts over a million visitors a year. Children can visit the park\u2019s website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haleakala National Park was created in 1961. Carved from the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Maui, this park encompasses the vast, extinct volcano crater Haleakala and the Kipahula wilderness area. The word Haleakala means the house of the sun in Hawaiian. The park, around 33,265 acres, hosts over a million visitors a year. Children can <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6392' 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":[5309,5352,1030,1027],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5309","tag-august-1","tag-haleakala-national-park","tag-hawaii-volcanoes-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\/6392","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=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29597,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/29597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}