{"id":30560,"date":"2021-04-04T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/04\/micronesian-scientist-becomes-first-pacific-islander-to-reach-oceans-deepest-point"},"modified":"2021-04-04T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T20:00:49","slug":"micronesian-scientist-becomes-first-pacific-islander-to-reach-oceans-deepest-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30560","title":{"rendered":"Micronesian scientist becomes first Pacific Islander to reach ocean&#8217;s deepest point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Yamase visited the Challenger Deep trench, which lies nearly 11km below the surface<\/p>\n<p>It is a place that has been visited by fewer people than have flown to the moon \u2013 pitch black, 11km down, the last frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Nicole Yamase became the first Pacific Islander, the third woman, and, at 29, the second-youngest person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest known part of the Mariana Trench.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/04\/micronesian-scientist-becomes-first-pacific-islander-to-reach-oceans-deepest-point\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Yamase visited the Challenger Deep trench, which lies nearly 11km below the surfaceIt is a place that has been visited by fewer people than have flown to the moon \u2013 pitch black, 11km down, the last frontier.Last month, Nicole Yamase became the f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,952,467,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-micronesia","category-oceans","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30561,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions\/30561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}