{"id":577683,"date":"2026-04-11T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:39:15","slug":"earth-day-how-to-volunteer-or-just-enjoy-nature-in-the-d-c-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577683\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day: How to volunteer or just enjoy nature in the D.C. area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"64HZTXUYIRFMZJFFZRTNP5O6V4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Since 1970, Earth Day has been a chance to honor the environment by being a better steward of the planet we all share. And because Earth Day falls on a Wednesday this year, local organizations and communities are spreading out their celebrations to weekends on either side of April 22. Here\u2019s where to cultivate a green thumb, beautify our local parks and riverbanks, and most important, get outside and enjoy Mother Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 1970, Earth Day has been a chance to honor the environment by being a better steward of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-577683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}