{"id":28135,"date":"2013-11-14T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=28135"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:50:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:50:35","slug":"florida-sinkholes-spark-lee-county-discussion-to-save-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/11\/florida-sinkholes-spark-lee-county-discussion-to-save-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Sinkholes Spark <br>Lee County Discussion to Save One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28136\" title=\"leeland lake\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/leeland-lake-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/leeland-lake-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/leeland-lake.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Leeland Lake in Lehigh Acres holds a lot of history and is considered a geological gem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people at first they thought it was a lake, but it&#8217;s really a sinkhole. We had some scientist come out and take a depth finder and they found out it was over 200 some feet deep,&#8221; said AJ Stokes who works at the Lehigh Resort Club nearby.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Leeland Lake dates back to early 1940\u2019s and was called Still Lake than.<\/p>\n<p>We have guests that stay here and they always have a bunch of questions and ask about it. They are pretty surprised when they hear it&#8217;s a sinkhole. A\u00a0lot of them get scared, Stokes said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County has only a handful of sinkholes, compared to Central Florida.\u00a0But Leeland Lake is special; Lee County is looking to purchase the property with 20\/20 conservation money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeland Lake in Lehigh Acres holds a lot of history and is considered a geological gem. &#8220;A lot of people at first they thought it was a lake, but it&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}