{"id":7921,"date":"2014-02-19T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:14:12","slug":"nova-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7921","title":{"rendered":"NOVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/easter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7922\" src=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/easter-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"easter\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/easter-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/easter.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 @ 10:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues or moai, weighing up to 86 tons? And how did they transform a presumed paradise into a treeless wasteland, bringing ruin upon their island and themselves? NOVA explores controversial recent claims that challenge decades of previous thinking about the islanders, who have been accused of everything from ecocide to cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/nova-mystery-easter-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 @ 10:00PM A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues or moai, weighing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NOVA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19768,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/19768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}