{"id":846,"date":"2009-02-01T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2009-02-01T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T06:28:10","slug":"good-news-for-illinois-state-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/good-news-for-illinois-state-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Illinois State Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhhh, I can maybe breathe a sigh of relief.&nbsp; While our local state parks received the necessary funding to keep them open&#8211;others (and they are busy parks!) fell to the ax of closure, closing their gates in December of this past year.<\/p>\n<p>However with the impeachment of good ole Blago we now have a governor who seems to care about the people a bit more.&nbsp; Governor Pat Quinn has been quoted as stating that re-opening our state parks is a paramount concern:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pantagraph.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/30\/news\/doc49824a666dd89180961932.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Pantagraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So for now I can breathe a sigh of relief.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy hunkering down and dreaming up new concepts for 2009. In the coming weeks I hope to have a new website for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seethelightworkshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE THE LIGHT Workshop<\/a> for my photography friends with new dates released for 2009.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;m looking at a workshop for late April and early June.&nbsp;&nbsp; Other stuff too!&nbsp; 2009 will be a fabulous year.&nbsp; I hope it finds you, my blog friends, feeling healthy, enjoying life and making loads of memories. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news and updates from leading Chicagoland photographer Marmalade Photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[661],"tags":[89,82,69,161],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-child-photographer","tag-chicago-childrens-photographer","tag-chicagoland-photographer","tag-professional-photographer","tag-state-of-the-illinois-state-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}