{"id":71421,"date":"2016-03-22T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/new-national-wetlands-inventory-layers-released\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:08:19","slug":"new-national-wetlands-inventory-layers-released","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/water\/water\/new-national-wetlands-inventory-layers-released","title":{"rendered":"New National Wetlands Inventory Layers Released!"},"author":7621,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[24981,23381,26601,40161,30251,28601,30261],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-71421","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","tag-hydro","tag-landscape","tag-living-atlas-community","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-national-wetlands-inventory","tag-sciences","tag-soil","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"\n\nThe new 2015 National Wetlands Inventory layers have been released! 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