{"id":173,"date":"2017-02-27T07:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=173"},"modified":"2017-02-27T07:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:49:38","slug":"scott-looking-for-new-parks-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Scott Looking For New Parks Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott is looking for a new person to head the state park system after Lisa Edgar, who was named to the position in December, has resigned.\n<\/p>\n<p>Her resignation was because of a &#8220;family emergency,&#8221; SaintPetersBlog reported today.\n<\/p>\n<p>Edgar was hired after long-time career parks director Don  Forgione was abruptly reassigned to oversee just one state park in December.\n<\/p>\n<p>The still unanswered question is what kind of policy changes, if any, will whoever takes over as head of Florida&#8217;s park system will make, at least in the remaining two years of the Scott administration.\n<\/p>\n<p>Scott has attempted to commercialize operations in some parks and also proposed selling off as surplus conservation lands outside the park system.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott is looking for a new person to head the state park system after Lisa Edgar, who was named to the position in December, has resigned. Her resignation was because of a &#8220;family emergency,&#8221; SaintPetersBlog reported today. Edgar was hired after long-time career parks director Don Forgione was abruptly reassigned to oversee just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}