{"id":7405,"date":"2010-05-20T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/way-to-help-save-a-river-poppa\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:17:51","slug":"way-to-help-save-a-river-poppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/way-to-help-save-a-river-poppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Way to help save a river, Poppa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?et=1103404030285&amp;s=2590&amp;e=001QzzCWI-eMd7eBa-4tnGOLQ9M5kpUHM2gPORJV0UcPDL_ITM8h_Cm8vALjNGkyrhbLLL-YIxazeVGZn5FSym0LsHgiTLf5WSRHCWabdIbk_u6oePKdswrH_wV3AfsmZNJ_Mpx5e4hFdjI-wd_eG-ps09HPloq2HZW\">Texas Monthly on the Neches River, 2010, &quot;Into the Wild&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My dad is the co-founder of an organization called &quot;Friends of the Neches River.&quot;&#160; He has been fighting to save this beautiful river for literally years now.&#160; The city of Dallas wanted to build a reservoir that would&#8217;ve killed the river and its ecosystem.&#160; Dallas was in a lawsuit with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife who wanted to save the river and protect it as a &quot;National Wildlife Refuge.&quot;&#160; Dad was actively involved in the protection of this river, and was even quoted in the Wall Street Journal.&#160;&#160; Here is a video he is in explaining some of the history of the battle of this scenic East Texas river.&#160; And East Texas WON!&#160; The refuge is official, and we are so proud of Poppa and all of his conservation projects and efforts.&#160; It&#8217;s really cool to get involved, and this is proof that a grass-roots organization can make a difference.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>P.S.&#160; Rara is in an awesomely dorky, super cute picture at the end of the video!&#160; Can you find her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Monthly on the Neches River, 2010, &quot;Into the Wild&quot; My dad is the co-founder of an organization called &quot;Friends of the Neches River.&quot;&#160; He has been fighting to save this beautiful river for literally years now.&#160; The city of Dallas wanted to build a reservoir that would&#8217;ve killed the river and its ecosystem.&#160; Dallas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7409,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}