{"id":122646,"date":"2013-12-04T23:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-to-hold-open-house-thursday\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T23:21:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T06:21:49","slug":"mesa-verde-to-hold-open-house-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-to-hold-open-house-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Verde to hold open house Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luminarias will glow across the National Historic Landmark District and along the trail to Spruce Tree House, but flashlights are encouraged for self-guided tours. A low of 5 degrees is expected, so dress warmly.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy musical entertainment in the Chapin Mesa Archaeological Museum until 9 p.m. No park admission is charged starting at 4 p.m., and refreshments are available at the Spruce Tree Terrace.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled musical entertainment includes the Fort Lewis College Bala Sinem Choir, a traditional Native American drum and chant; Fort Lewis College Jazz Trio; Meadowlark, contemporary folk rock; and The Four Corners Community Band.<\/p>\n<p>The event also includes in-store specials at the nonprofit Mesa Verde Museum Association Museum bookstore featuring books, posters, puppets, historic photographs and other great holiday gifts. Proceeds benefit the park.<\/p>\n<p>Ranger-guided tours of Spruce Tree House, the third-largest cliff dwelling in the park, are presented at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Information: 970-529-4465.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:tbaker@cortezjournal.com\">tbaker@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luminarias will glow across the National Historic Landmark District and along the trail to Spruce Tree House, but flashlights are encouraged for self-guided tours. A low of 5 degrees is expected, so dress warmly. Enjoy musical entertainment in the Chapin Mesa Archaeological Museum until 9 p.m. No park admission is charged starting at 4 p.m., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,13,173,60,2678,1187],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-122646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mesa-verde-national-park","tag-montezuma-county","tag-religious-festival-or-holiday","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122646","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=122646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122646"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=122646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}