{"id":915,"date":"2014-12-11T17:08:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/?p=915"},"modified":"2015-01-07T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T03:01:13","slug":"lesvilda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/lesvilda\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Vilda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"margin: 0 0 0 25px; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/les-vilda.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Les Vilda does not regurgitate history, he lives it! His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.havedonkeywilltravel.com\" target=\"_blank\">8 programs<\/a> cover life on the trails and the colorful encounters one might have expected. He draws from his personal explorations of these trails and characters to bring each program to life. He engages learners of all ages with hands-on 19th century navigation, fire-building with flint and steel or burning glass, and rope making.<\/p>\n<p>Vilda has been actively researching and presenting programs on Western U.S. History (1800-1850) since 1983, having presented his Santa Fe Trail program alone well over 650 times in 16 states.<\/p>\n<p>He has done consulting work for Western artists, authors, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/nps.gov\" target=\"_blank\">National Park Service<\/a>. Vilda is also a published author and recording artist. He was awarded the title of \u201cAmbassador of the Santa Fe Trail\u201d by the <a title=\"Santa Fe Trail Association\" href=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/santa-fe-trail-association\/\">Santa Fe Trail Association<\/a>\u00a0in 1987 and has been performing consistently since then.<\/p>\n<p>Trails: <a title=\"Santa Fe National Historic Trail\" href=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/santa-fe-national-historic-trail\/\">Santa Fe National Historic Trail<\/a>, <a title=\"Oregon National Historic Trail\" href=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/oregon-national-historic-trail\/\">Oregon<\/a> and <a title=\"California National Historic Trail\" href=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/california-national-historic-trail\/\">California National Historic Trail<\/a>, <a title=\"Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail\" href=\"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/lewis-and-clark-national-historic-trail\/\">Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Vilda does not regurgitate history, he lives it! His 8 programs cover life on the trails and the colorful encounters one might have expected. <\/p>\n<div class=\"button right\"><a class=\"button more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/lesvilda\/\">more &raquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[100,109,105,29],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}