{"id":94761,"date":"2019-04-08T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T16:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-botanical-gardens-launches-app-for-self-guided-tours\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T16:39:08","slug":"durango-botanical-gardens-launches-app-for-self-guided-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-botanical-gardens-launches-app-for-self-guided-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango Botanical Gardens launches app for self-guided tours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durangobotanicalsociety.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Durango Botanical Society<\/a> Executive Director Cindy Smart built the app to engage tourists who cannot attend a formal guided tour.<\/p>\n<p>She also expects the app to help engage younger residents to visit and spend time in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Smart has often had to accommodate last-minute requests for tours from visitors, and she hopes the app will help keep docents from getting overwhelmed, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The app provides detailed information about ecosystems and individual plants. By the fall, she expects the app will detect a visitor\u2019s location in the garden and provide information about the plants at that location.<\/p>\n<p>The app also provides a phone number so visitors can call a member of the society if they have questions.<\/p>\n<p>Smart also is developing games for the app that would help children learn new vocabulary and interact with the garden, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole idea of public gardens is to encourage other generations to take part in enjoying and protecting them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect name for Durango Botanical Gardens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durango Botanical Society Executive Director Cindy Smart built the app to engage tourists who cannot attend a formal guided tour. She also expects the app to help engage younger residents to visit and spend time in the garden. Smart has often had to accommodate last-minute requests for tours from visitors, and she hopes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5843],"tags":[408,358],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living","tag-charity","tag-science-and-technology"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94761","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=94761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94761"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}