{"id":98729,"date":"2019-08-19T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/08\/19\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store"},"modified":"2019-08-19T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:46:42","slug":"donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate to US National Parks by using Apple Pay at an Apple Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- font size selector, BEGIN --> <span class=\"cfix\">&nbsp;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"gray small byline\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#375a565b54585b5a775647475b525e59445e5352451954585a\">Malcolm Owen<\/a> <br \/><span class=\"gray\">Monday, August 19, 2019, 04:46 am PT (07:46 am ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><span class=\"article-leader\">Apple is promoting Apple Pay with a charitable offer to users based in the United States, with a pledge to donate $10 to the National Parks Foundation for customers spending money at Apple Stores using the mobile payments platform until August 25. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store.jpg\" alt=\"Horseshoe Bend at the Grand Canyon\" height=\"368\" class=\"lazy\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\">Horseshoe Bend at the Grand Canyon<\/span><\/div>\n<p>From August 17 and running through the week until August 25, purchases made using Apple Pay at any Apple Store, the Apple website, or the Apple Store app will make a donation to the National Parks Foundation. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-pay\/\">Apple Pay website<\/a> specifies it is a $10 donation per transaction with a minimum purchase of $10. <\/p>\n<p>The promotion is also limited to the first 100,000 qualifying transactions, which means as much as $1 million could be headed to the National Parks Foundation. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Pay website National Parks Foundation notice\" height=\"172\" class=\"lazy\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donate-to-us-national-parks-by-using-apple-pay-at-an-apple-store-2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The advisement that Apple is &#8220;celebrating our national parks&#8221; relates to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/grca\/getinvolved\/centennial.htm\">centenary<\/a> of the Grand Canyon National Park, which was designated as a national park 100 years ago. The UNESCO World Heritage Site features the famous crevice and is the destination for approximately six million visitors each year. <\/p>\n<p>Apple is also celebrating with a health-related achievement on August 25. <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/08\/14\/close-your-apple-watch-exercise-rings-on-aug-25-for-the-grand-canyon-award\">Apple Watch owners<\/a> are encouraged to walk a minimum of three miles, roughly the same distances as the beginner-friendly Cedar Ridge hike on the South Kaibab Trail at the Grand Canyon, in exchange for a special award. <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Malcolm Owen Monday, August 19, 2019, 04:46 am PT (07:46 am ET) Apple is promoting Apple Pay with a charitable offer to users based in the United States, with a pledge to donate $10 to the National Parks Foundation for customers spending money at Apple Stores using the mobile payments platform until August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}