{"id":7796,"date":"2010-09-09T18:08:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T02:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2010-09-09T18:08:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T02:38:37","slug":"missile-programme-raises-concern-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7796","title":{"rendered":"Missile programme raises concern in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnzi.com\/pages\/news.php?op=read&amp;id=55776\">http:\/\/www.rnzi.com\/pages\/news.php?op=read&amp;id=55776<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Missile programme raises concern in Hawaii<\/h2>\n<p>Posted at 04:30 on 09 September, 2010 UTC<\/p>\n<p>A Kauai resident in Hawaii says people are divided over the issue to expand a military missile programme to develop ballistic missile testing from the island.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Wilson says some residents support the military, saying it brings jobs and incomes in economically tough times.<\/p>\n<p>But he says others are concerned about the environmental damage to sea life, the atmosphere and the land.<\/p>\n<p>He says while there is the US military\u2019s push to grow its presence in the Pacific region, there\u2019s increasing concern about people\u2019s safety on a small remote island, like Kauai, if the military\u2019s expansion plans continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor one thing it makes us a target here which we don\u2019t particularly like. If there were the things that the military anticipates, major conflicts that uses weapons systems of the kind that they are developing, we would be ground zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kauai resident, Juan Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.rnzi.com\/pages\/news.php?op=read&amp;id=55776 Missile programme raises concern in Hawaii Posted at 04:30 on 09 September, 2010 UTC A Kauai resident in Hawaii says people are divided over the issue to expand a military missile programme to develop ballistic missile testing from the island. Juan Wilson says some residents support the military, saying it brings jobs and incomes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Missile programme raises concern in Hawaii&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,56],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kauai","category-pacific","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}