{"id":99237,"date":"2026-05-05T18:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:48:18","slug":"vote-for-katy-fuel-the-passion-of-lebanons-second-grade-conservationist-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/99237\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Katy: fuel the passion of Lebanon&#8217;s second-grade conservationist | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An accomplished second-grade student at Harney Elementary School is striving to add another achievement to her list, becoming the next National Wildlife Federation Junior Ranger.<\/p>\n<p>Katy Foster is currently mastering three instruments \u2014 guitar, piano, and her favorite, drums. She is learning to speak Hebrew, Spanish and Greek, and she is a training gymnast and in her third year on the Witham Swim Team, according to NWF. 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Email her at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reporter.net\/news\/vote-for-katy-fuel-the-passion-of-lebanons-second-grade-conservationist\/mailto:ella.howell@reporter.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ella.howell@reporter.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An accomplished second-grade student at Harney Elementary School is striving to add another achievement to her list, becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[34724,31648,34719,24692,18410,28248,34718,93,34717,11445,34723,4658,34726,7232,34720,34725,34721,34722],"class_list":{"0":"post-99237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-biodiversity","9":"tag-biogeography","10":"tag-conservation-biology","11":"tag-ecology","12":"tag-environmental-protection","13":"tag-environmental-conservation","14":"tag-habitat","15":"tag-lebanon","16":"tag-national-wildlife-federation","17":"tag-natural-environment","18":"tag-natural-resource-management","19":"tag-natural-resources","20":"tag-natural-sciences","21":"tag-nature","22":"tag-nature-conservation","23":"tag-organisms","24":"tag-sustainable-development","25":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116523467073018611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}