{"id":297581,"date":"2017-04-05T19:07:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T23:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b122c7627e1b001df81aca9dfffd9178"},"modified":"2017-04-05T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:35:12","slug":"bezos-is-selling-1-billion-of-amazon-stock-a-year-to-fund-rocket-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=297581","title":{"rendered":"Bezos is selling $1 billion of Amazon stock a year to fund rocket venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) &#8211; Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday he is selling about $1 billion worth of the internet retailer&#8217;s stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying passengers on 11-minute space rides starting next year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=7dcZAAcD9u4:xW7iRIyiUCI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=7dcZAAcD9u4:xW7iRIyiUCI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=7dcZAAcD9u4:xW7iRIyiUCI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=7dcZAAcD9u4:xW7iRIyiUCI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=7dcZAAcD9u4:xW7iRIyiUCI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/7dcZAAcD9u4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) &#8211; Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday he is selling about $1 billion worth of the internet retailer&#8217;s stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying passengers on 11-minu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297595,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297581\/revisions\/297595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}