{"id":364,"date":"2006-07-12T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/white-sands-missile-defense-test-a-success\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T17:55:00","slug":"white-sands-missile-defense-test-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/white-sands-missile-defense-test-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sands missile defense test a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Air Force successfully completed its third test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system this morning at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">White<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Sands<\/st1:PlaceName>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Missile<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Range<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Area media reported that the test, which took place at about 5:30 a.m., was seen in <st1:city st=\"on\">El Paso<\/st1:City> and as far away as <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The missile defense system test comes days after <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">North Korea<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s testing of several missiles. The <st1:country-region st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:country-region> was prepared to shoot down one missile that had been aimed at the waters near <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Hawaii<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, but the missile failed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Two more launches will be held at White Sands before testing moves to <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Hawaii<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. The system could be operational within two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The test was first reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\/news\/9503589\/detail.html?rss=elp&amp;psp=news\" target=\"_blank\">KFOX-TV<\/a> in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force successfully completed its third test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system this morning at White Sands Missile Range. Area media reported that the test, which took place at about 5:30 a.m., was seen in El Paso and as far away as Phoenix. The missile defense system test comes days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}