{"id":695988,"date":"2026-06-10T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695988\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:02:08","slug":"atascadero-opens-monarch-butterfly-habitat-along-migration-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695988\/","title":{"rendered":"Atascadero opens monarch butterfly habitat along migration route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new monarch butterfly habitat opened in Atascadero, giving migrating butterflies what officials call a &#8220;vital rest stop&#8221; along the California coast.<\/p>\n<p>A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Tuesday to celebrate the new habitat, located at Morro Bay Road and Highway 41, near the US-101 off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say the habitat will serve not only monarch butterflies, but also other pollinators traveling between Monterey and Pismo Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new monarch butterfly habitat opened in Atascadero, giving migrating butterflies what officials call a &#8220;vital rest stop&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-695988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695988","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=695988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}