{"id":1979,"date":"2024-01-22T01:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/burn-beetle-burn-south-dakotans-torch-an-effigy-of-destructive-bug\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T01:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:27:22","slug":"burn-beetle-burn-south-dakotans-torch-an-effigy-of-destructive-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/burn-beetle-burn-south-dakotans-torch-an-effigy-of-destructive-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Burn, beetle, burn\u2019: South Dakotans torch an effigy of destructive bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people set fire to a giant wooden beetle in the annual festival to raise awareness of the harmful pine beetle<\/p>\n<p>In what\u2019s become an annual winter tradition: hundreds of people carrying torches set fire to a giant wooden beetle effigy in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness of the destructive impact of the mountain pine beetle on forest land in the Black Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Custer firefighters prepared and lit the torches for residents to carry in a march to the pyre Saturday night in the 11th Burning Beetle fest, the Rapid City Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/21\/custer-south-dakota-burning-beetle-fest-event-pageant-park\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people set fire to a giant wooden beetle in the annual festival to raise awareness of the harmful pine beetle In what\u2019s become an annual winter tradition: hundreds of people carrying torches set fire to a giant wooden beetle effigy in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness of the destructive impact of the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Burn, beetle, burn\u2019: South Dakotans torch an effigy of destructive bug\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/burn-beetle-burn-south-dakotans-torch-an-effigy-of-destructive-bug\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Burn, beetle, burn\u2019: South Dakotans torch an effigy of destructive bug\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}