{"id":8798,"date":"2014-10-30T01:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2014-10-30T01:39:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:39:04","slug":"amelia-as-castaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/amelia-as-castaway\/","title":{"rendered":"amelia as castaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Amelia-Earhart_A-Daring-Pilot_HD_768x432-16x9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8799\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Amelia-Earhart_A-Daring-Pilot_HD_768x432-16x9.jpg\" alt=\"amelia earhart, courtesy of biography\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Amelia-Earhart_A-Daring-Pilot_HD_768x432-16x9.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Amelia-Earhart_A-Daring-Pilot_HD_768x432-16x9-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><em>(photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/amelia-earhart-9283280\" target=\"_blank\">biography.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>could this be true? earhart as castaway? all circumstantial <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/history\/us-history\/aluminum-fragment-appears-to-belong-to-earharts-plane-141028.htm\" target=\"_blank\">proof<\/a> so far but still:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0fragment of Amelia Earhart&#8217;s lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.<\/p>\n<p>New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminum aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart\u2019s twin-engined Lockheed Electra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough would prove that, contrary to what was generally believed, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, did not crash in the Pacific Ocean, running out of fuel somewhere near their target destination of Howland Island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead, they made a forced landing on Nikumaroro&#8217; smooth, flat coral reef. The two became castaways and eventually died on the atoll, which is some 350 miles southeast of Howland Island.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo courtesy of biography.com) could this be true? earhart as castaway? all circumstantial proof so far but still: A\u00a0fragment of Amelia Earhart&#8217;s lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8801,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}