{"id":13540,"date":"2012-03-25T21:45:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T03:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2012-03-25T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T03:45:58","slug":"13540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13540","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late Breaking news: \u00a0as of 9 pm tonight<\/p>\n<p>At noon, local time (10 p.m. ET),<a href=\"http:\/\/deepseachallenge.com\/the-team\/james-cameron\/?source=cameron_sub_news\">James Cameron<\/a>\u00a0&#8216;s\u00a0&#8220;vertical torpedo&#8221; sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from the<a href=\"http:\/\/deepseachallenge.com\/the-expedition\/mariana-trench\/?source=cameron_sub_news\">Mariana Trench<\/a>\u00a0&#8216;s Challenger Deep\u2014Earth&#8217;s deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm.<\/p>\n<p>The first human to reach the 6.8-mile-deep (11-kilometer-deep) undersea valley solo, Cameron arrived at the bottom with the tech to collect scientific data, specimens, and visions unthinkable in 1960, when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deepseachallenge.com\/the-expedition\/1960-dive\/?source=cameron_sub_news\">the only other manned Challenger Deep dive<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0took place, according to members of the National Geographic expedition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Breaking news: \u00a0as of 9 pm tonight At noon, local time (10 p.m. ET),James Cameron\u00a0&#8216;s\u00a0&#8220;vertical torpedo&#8221; sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from theMariana Trench\u00a0&#8216;s Challenger Deep\u2014Earth&#8217;s deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm. The first human to reach the 6.8-mile-deep (11-kilometer-deep) undersea valley solo, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/13541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}