{"id":304555,"date":"2019-07-25T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=304555"},"modified":"2019-07-25T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:06:02","slug":"natgeo-aims-to-solve-amelia-earhart-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/natgeo-aims-to-solve-amelia-earhart-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"NatGeo aims to solve Amelia Earhart mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304556\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/National-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/National-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"754\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this June 26, 1928, file photo, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses with flowers as she arrives in Southampton, England, Britain, after her transatlantic flight on the &#8220;Friendship&#8221; from Burry Point, Wales.\u00a0(AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)\u2014The deep-sea explorer who discovered the wrecked Titanic is tackling an aviation mystery: Amelia Earhart\u2019s disappearance.<br \/>\nRobert Ballard and a National Geographic expedition will search for her plane next month near a Pacific Ocean atoll that\u2019s part of the Phoenix Islands.<br \/>\nEarhart and navigator Fred Noonan were attempting an around-the-world flight when their aircraft disappeared in July 1937, spawning years of searches and speculation.<br \/>\nBallard and his team will use remotely operated underwater vehicles in their search, the National Geographic channel said Tuesday. An archaeological team will investigate a potential Earhart campsite with search dogs and DNA sampling.<br \/>\nThe channel will air a two-hour special on Oct. 20. \u201cExpedition Amelia\u201d will include clues gathered by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery that led Ballard to the atoll, named Nikumaroro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)\u2014The deep-sea explorer who discovered the wrecked Titanic is tackling an aviation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":304556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17600],"class_list":["post-304555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amelia-earhart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}