{"id":10320,"date":"2025-07-03T06:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?page_id=10320"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:46:33","slug":"national-parks-and-recreation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/news\/national-parks-and-recreation-month\/","title":{"rendered":"National Parks and Recreation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) designated July as America\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrpa.org\/events\/july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Park and Recreation month<\/a> in 1985. The goal of this month is to both encourage people to explore, enjoy and celebrate our local area parks and recreation centers, and to give recognition to the hundreds of thousand of full-time, part-time, and seasonal workers and volunteers who help maintain our country&#8217;s local, state, and community parks.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 40th anniversary of Park and Recreation Month! This year\u2019s theme, \u201cBuild Together, Play Together, &#8221; reminds us of the contributions of more than 160,000 full-time park and recreation professionals \u2014 along with hundreds of thousands of part-time and seasonal workers and volunteers \u2014 who maintain our country\u2019s close-to-home parks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDid you know that July is America\u2019s official Park and Recreation month? This is the perfect time to explore, enjoy, and celebrate our local area parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41341,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions\/41341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}