{"id":507124,"date":"2018-08-09T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a6f79c0bf5d504c59d0e88d0d0e2e6c4"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:15:02","slug":"white-house-describes-military-space-force-aims-to-create-it-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=507124","title":{"rendered":"White House Describes Military &#8216;Space Force,&#8217; Aims To Create It By 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/08\/09\/gettyimages-1013898034_wide-d8a0e13a7b6a57e61098050b3b6839713f60d670.jpg?s=600' alt='Vice President Pence announces the Trump Administration's plan to create the U.S. Space Force by 2020 during a speech at the Pentagon on Thursday.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Pence said in a speech Thursday that the Space Force, which would be the military&#8217;s sixth branch, will &#8220;prepare for the next battlefield&#8221; and &#8220;a new generation of threats.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=637132220' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Pence said in a speech Thursday that the Space Force, which would be the military&#8217;s sixth branch, will &#8220;prepare for the next battlefield&#8221; and &#8220;a new generation of threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507124","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507125,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507124\/revisions\/507125"}],"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=507124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}