{"id":783709,"date":"2015-10-04T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=783709"},"modified":"2015-10-02T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:18:29","slug":"summer-junior-ranger-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/summer-junior-ranger-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Junior Ranger Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Ranger Badges bring mixed reactions in my family. I think they are a fun and educational project. Some of my kids agree with me. Some, well, maybe we won&#8217;t go there. So some of my kids\u00a0had fun getting Junior Ranger Badges this summer, and all got them. We (meaning my kids) earned\u00a0three badges this summer from the following National Parks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/romo\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/dena\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Denali National Park<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/kefj\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kenai Fjords National Park<\/a>. They also were able to visit two new states that these parks were in\u2014Colorado and Alaska respectively. A couple\u00a0pictures of taking the pledge: (Rocky Mountain NP and Kenai Fjords respectively).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rocking Mountain NP Jr. Ranger Pledge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/21875327122\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/734\/21875327122_72da4cf8d0.jpg\" alt=\"Rocking Mountain NP Jr. Ranger Pledge\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><a title=\"Kenai Fjords NP Jr. Ranger Pledge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/21266184643\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5761\/21266184643_a7e550670e.jpg\" alt=\"Kenai Fjords NP Jr. Ranger Pledge\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A few\u00a0pictures of the fun we had on our different trips. (Climbing trees in Colorado, standing by an elevation sign that we hiked up to from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/romo\/alpine_visitor_center.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Alpine Visitor Center<\/a> in Rocky Mountain National Park, and setting up camp in Denali NP respectively.)<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><a title=\"Tree Climbing in Colorado\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/21699204750\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5830\/21699204750_4684dee80e.jpg\" alt=\"Tree Climbing in Colorado\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trail Close to Alpine Visitor Center Rocky Mountain National Park\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/21861349676\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/578\/21861349676_9d355fc5a4.jpg\" alt=\"Trail Close to Alpine Visitor Center Rocky Mountain National Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Camping in Denali NP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/21861112626\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5657\/21861112626_40a83b8da1.jpg\" alt=\"Camping in Denali NP\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Ranger Badges bring mixed reactions in my family. I think they are a fun and educational project. Some of my kids agree with me. Some, well, maybe we won&#8217;t go there. So some of my kids\u00a0had fun getting Junior Ranger Badges this summer, and all got them. We (meaning my kids) earned\u00a0three badges this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783709"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783715,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783709\/revisions\/783715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}