{"id":73396,"date":"2016-10-31T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=73396"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:11:23","slug":"kids-at-fort-ord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=73396","title":{"rendered":"Kids at Fort Ord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I led three outdoor education classes of children age 5-12 at Fort Ord National Monument. It was my first time directly interacting with children that age in what feels like years, and it was a\u00a0really heartwarming experience. The young children were\u00a0really unfiltered and enthusiastic, and it was really enjoyable and comedic at times to spend time with them. I led them on nature hikes pointing out any interesting animals, plants or fungi that I saw, and showed them BLM&#8217;s domestic\u00a0California legless lizards and gopher snake, two reptiles found on Fort Ord.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73397\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73397\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73397\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1167-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kids taking time to journal\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids taking time to journal<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_73398\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73398\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73398\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0982-e1477850026361-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old man's beard\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0982-e1477850026361-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0982-e1477850026361-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0982-e1477850026361-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old man&#8217;s beard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before those nature classes, I was helping a group of CSUMB capstone students do transects of old restoration sites in order to monitor their vegetation coverage. While in the field, we stumbled upon a very large orb-weaver spider in one of the plant basins.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73399\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73399\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73399\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0969-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Orb-weaver spider with his meal\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orb-weaver spider with its\u00a0meal<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I led three outdoor education classes of children age 5-12 at Fort Ord National Monument. It was my first time directly interacting with children that age in what feels like years, and it was a\u00a0really heartwarming experience. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=73396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73396\/revisions\/73619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}