{"id":117768,"date":"2014-09-17T19:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/public-lands-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2014-09-17T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T01:27:56","slug":"public-lands-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/public-lands-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Public lands ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=03d9f382-aedb-48fc-9260-8bdba04ef572&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=03d9f382-aedb-48fc-9260-8bdba04ef572&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=03d9f382-aedb-48fc-9260-8bdba04ef572&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=03d9f382-aedb-48fc-9260-8bdba04ef572&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"400\" height=\"586\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>So we put Darren Uptain to work at the front desk as a volunteer. Over the summer, he became a natural at helping the public. His enthusiasm was contagious, and he often went the extra mile to make sure all his customers were satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Native to the Dolores area and a recent graduate from Dolores High School, Darren was a perfect ambassador for public lands. He enjoys fishing, hiking, and camping in the area. His other passion is restoring classic cars.<\/p>\n<p>Darren also works full-time for Montezuma County Road Department, where he operates equipment, trucks and works in the shop. His long-range goals include college, where he hopes to acquire a degree that will land him a Forest Service job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the best experience I have ever had,\u201d he says. \u201cThe employees are great and were all willing to provide hands-on training for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we put Darren Uptain to work at the front desk as a volunteer. Over the summer, he became a natural at helping the public. His enthusiasm was contagious, and he often went the extra mile to make sure all his customers were satisfied. Native to the Dolores area and a recent graduate from Dolores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-117768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117768"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=117768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}