{"id":31761,"date":"2016-08-01T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=31761"},"modified":"2016-08-01T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:56:21","slug":"yellowstone-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/08\/01\/yellowstone-spirituality\/31761\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year is the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. Yellowstone National Park is the nation\u2019s oldest, with its Old Faithful geyser and grizzly bears.\u00a0Lucky Severson visited it recently and talked with sightseers about the beauty, peace and\u2013for many\u2013the sense of the holy that they find there.\u00a0He also talked with Yellowstone\u2019s Superintendent about the park\u2019s future, as it tries to cope with the effects of global warming on the geysers and concerns about the effects of the bigger and bigger crowds of visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy all rights we shouldn\u2019t really even be here, you know. We should back out, tear out the roads, and leave it,\u201d says Jim Smith, a Yellowstone visitor. \u201cBut at the same time humanity needs this. I think the most important thing I\u2019ve learned from other people is that they feel at peace here.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/08\/01\/yellowstone-spirituality\/31761\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":31785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-nature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yellowstone Spirituality | August 1, 2016 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/08\/01\/yellowstone-spirituality\/31761\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yellowstone Spirituality | August 1, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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