{"id":569021,"date":"2019-01-17T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=36189b3b7e501a8f59594da542ebbaf1"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:53:00","slug":"trump-unveils-ambitious-missile-defense-plans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=569021","title":{"rendered":"Trump Unveils Ambitious Missile Defense Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/01\/17\/4964674_wide-02754591f9617845630df0140569e6ad6d15142e.jpg?s=600' alt='President Trump called for a beefing up of existing defenses, such as the Aegis ashore system pictured. In addition, he called for research into new advanced concepts.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The strategy, reminiscent of the Cold War-era Star Wars program, calls for new sensors in space, updated missile interceptors and advanced weapons, including lasers.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Mark Wright\/Missile Defense Agency)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=686169529' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strategy, reminiscent of the Cold War-era Star Wars program, calls for new sensors in space, updated missile interceptors and advanced weapons, including lasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569021","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\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569022,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569021\/revisions\/569022"}],"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=569021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}