{"id":24341,"date":"2015-06-30T14:28:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=24341"},"modified":"2015-06-30T14:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:28:58","slug":"stateimpact-on-oeta-tourism-budget-cuts-and-oklahomas-state-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/06\/30\/stateimpact-on-oeta-tourism-budget-cuts-and-oklahomas-state-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"StateImpact on OETA: Tourism Budget Cuts and Oklahoma&#8217;s State Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MUu-4hdrA4k\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>Since 2011, one of the ways the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation has dealt with budget cuts has been to <a title=\"StateImpactLink\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/07\/10\/four-more-state-parks-at-risk-as-budget-cuts-and-low-attendance-loom\/\" target=\"_blank\">close state parks or transfer them to new managers<\/a>, like tribal governments or nearby towns.<\/p><p>With the agency taking a <a title=\"StateImpactLink\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/06\/11\/state-parks-in-danger-after-tourism-departments-16-million-budget-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\">cut of more than $16 million dollars<\/a> going into the new fiscal year, the big question is whether more parks will have to go.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p><p>StateImpact&#8217;s Logan Layden <a title=\"StateImpactLink\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?s=state+parks\" target=\"_blank\">has been following the offloading<\/a> of state parks for four years, and talked with OETA&#8217;s Dick Pryor on\u00a0<em>Oklahoma News Report<\/em> about how much worse the cuts are than they appear on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the agency taking a cut of more than $16 million dollars going into the new fiscal year, the big question is whether more parks will have to go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":23393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[105,48,111],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24341"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24356,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341\/revisions\/24356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}