{"id":8883,"date":"2026-12-28T00:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-12-28T05:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:12:48","slug":"endangered-species-act-became-law-in-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Species Act Became Law in 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8885\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8885\" class=\" wp-image-8885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bald-Eagle.jpg\" alt=\"Bald Eagle\" width=\"115\" height=\"144\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Bald Eagle, courtesy of Saffron Blaze<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Endangered Species Act became a law<\/strong> when it was signed by President Richard Nixon in 1973. The law tries to protect species that could become extinct. The law has helped the bald eagle, the whooping crane, and other species. Children can view a list of endangered species at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/species\/directory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Endangered Species<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endangered Species Act became a law when it was signed by President Richard Nixon in 1973. The law tries to protect species that could become extinct. The law has helped the bald eagle, the whooping crane, and other species. Children can view a list of endangered species at: Endangered Species.<\/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":[4728,4726,4714,4724,4725,4727],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4728","tag-bald-eagle","tag-december-28","tag-endangered-species-act","tag-president-richard-nixon","tag-the-whooping-crane","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\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21656,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/21656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}