{"id":886,"date":"2013-10-03T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=886"},"modified":"2013-10-03T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T05:14:10","slug":"government-shutdown-forces-closure-of-great-smoky-mountains-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown forces closure of Great Smoky Mountains National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/index.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-889\" alt=\"index\" src=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/index-300x144.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/index-300x144.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/lrctu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/index.jpeg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>the Great Smokey Mountain National Park is now closed. \u00a0You can email you representatives and tell them to pass a budget and open back up our National parks and forests.\u00a0 Here is a few of their links you can use.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Congressman John J. Duncan Jr. \" href=\"https:\/\/duncan.house.gov\/contact-me\/email-me\" target=\"_blank\">Congressman.\u00a0 John J. Duncan Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Congressman Phil Roe\" href=\"http:\/\/roe.house.gov\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"middlecopy\" id=\"ctl00_ctl10_ctl00_Text\">Congressman.\u00a0 Phil Roe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Senator Lamar Alexander\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexander.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=Email\" target=\"_blank\">Senator. Lamar Alexan<\/a><a title=\"Senator Lamar Alexander\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexander.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=Email\" target=\"_blank\">der <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Senator Bob Corker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corker.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/contactme\" target=\"_blank\">Senator,\u00a0 Bob Corker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a few alternative places you can fish in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 <a title=\"Gatlinburg \" href=\"http:\/\/www.gatlinburg.com\/things-to-do\/attractions\/outdoor-activities\/fishing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gatlinburg City waters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 <a title=\"Cherokee tribal waters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeesmokies.com\/fishing_boating.php\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee tribal waters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 <a title=\"Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Trail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flyfishingtrail.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Trail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. <a title=\"TVA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tva.gov\/river\/lakeinfo\/index.htm#\" target=\"_blank\">TVA tailwaters and lakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 You can safely park near any of the GSMNP or National Forest gates and walk in.<\/p>\n<p>Good Fishing<\/p>\n<p>Joe &lt;((((&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know the Great Smokey Mountain National Park is now closed. \u00a0You can email you representatives and tell them to pass a budget and open back up our National parks and forests.\u00a0 Here is a few of their links &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}