{"id":556,"date":"2009-06-15T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T19:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-06-15T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T19:16:42","slug":"white-sands-to-waive-entrance-fees-3-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"White Sands to waive entrance fees 3 weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>White Sands National Monument will waive entrance fees for three weekends this summer to encourage visitors. Park Superintendent Kevin Schneider says during these tough economic times, families will have a chance to explore White Sands&#8217; spectacular geography for free. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The free weekends will be this Saturday and Sunday, July 18-19 and August 15-16. The fee waiver doesn&#8217;t include camping fees or special use permits.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The free weekends are part of a National Park Service effort to provide free weekends at 390 parks across the country to promote local and regional tourism. &#8212; Information from: Alamogordo Daily News, http:\/\/www.alamogordonews.com<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/N\/NM_WHITE_SANDS_FREE_WEEKENDS_NMOL-?SITE=NMSAN&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Associated Press headlines with Santa Fe news &#8211; SantaFeNewMexican.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Sands National Monument will waive entrance fees for three weekends this summer to encourage visitors. Park Superintendent Kevin Schneider says during these tough economic times, families will have a chance to explore White Sands&#8217; spectacular geography for free. The free weekends will be this Saturday and Sunday, July 18-19 and August 15-16. The fee &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White Sands to waive entrance fees 3 weekends<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newmexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}