{"id":626422,"date":"2019-08-06T05:39:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T09:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=626422"},"modified":"2019-08-06T05:39:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T09:39:40","slug":"amid-protests-in-hawaii-against-giant-telescope-astronomers-look-to-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=626422","title":{"rendered":"Amid Protests In Hawaii Against Giant Telescope, Astronomers Look To &#039;Plan B&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ap_785631171264_wide-ff386039acf284cae62655b4ca1bfa25865daa82.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An international consortium planning the Thirty Meter Telescope still prefers to site it atop the Big Island&#8217;s Mauna Kea. But local protests may drive the project to the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Caleb Jones\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/npr-rss-pixel-1.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/08\/06\/748559640\/amid-protests-in-hawaii-against-giant-telescope-astronomers-look-to-plan-b?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amid Protests In Hawaii Against Giant Telescope, Astronomers Look To &#8216;Plan B&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international consortium planning the Thirty Meter Telescope still prefers to site it atop the Big Island&#8217;s Mauna Kea. But local protests may drive the project to the Canary Islands.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626422","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626422\/revisions"}],"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=626422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}