{"id":1937,"date":"2008-05-25T07:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2008-05-25T07:10:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T15:10:38","slug":"report-on-californias-crumbling-state-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/25\/report-on-californias-crumbling-state-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on California&#8217;s crumbling state parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rogers of the Mercury News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_9376074\">documents the decay of the California state parks system,<\/a> and just how bad it&#8217;s gotten. From part one in this morning&#8217;s paper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Memorial Day weekend, campsites are booked from Mount Shasta to San Diego. But California&#8217;s state park system &#8211; once considered the best in the nation &#8211; is falling apart.<\/p>\n<p>Its 278 parks include priceless locales that define the state&#8217;s history and natural splendor: Sutter&#8217;s Mill, Lake Tahoe, towering redwoods and &#8220;Baywatch&#8221; beaches.<\/p>\n<p>Yet throughout the system, sewage pipes are crumbling. Roofs leak and thousands of scenic acres are padlocked for lack of rangers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you believe we need state parks, and that we need them not to be tattered embarrassments that horrify the tourists, pick up a copy of today&#8217;s paper and read this report &#8212; the graphics illustrate the forces that got us into this mess, and the photography shows in stark detail how bad things have gotten. <\/p>\n<p>Part 2 on Monday deals with what can be done about it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rogers of the Mercury News documents the decay of the California state parks system, and just how bad it&#8217;s gotten. From part one in this morning&#8217;s paper: This Memorial Day weekend, campsites are booked from Mount Shasta to San&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/25\/report-on-californias-crumbling-state-parks\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}