{"id":9160,"date":"2015-04-13T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2016-04-30T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T14:56:11","slug":"as-protests-intensify-belief-vs-belief-or-hawaiian-culture-vs-western-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/as-protests-intensify-belief-vs-belief-or-hawaiian-culture-vs-western-science\/","title":{"rendered":"As protests intensify&#8230; Belief vs Belief or Hawaiian Culture vs Western Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mauna Kea, April 2015<br \/>\nLast year when we have been on the Big Island for the IRONMAN world championships we\u00a0climbed Mauna Kea by foot. It was a magic walk that made us feel connected with the Island and this sacred place in a very different way.<br \/>\nExactly on that same day protesters had collected on the summit to fight peacefully against the construction of the world\u2019s largest observatory on the holy grounds of the mountain.\u00a0<!--more-->With a heavy heart\u00a0just last week 12 protesters have been arrested by the local policemen.\u00a0Everything\u00a0had\u00a0happened without violence. The protests are still ongoing and intensifying. As a reaction the governor announced a temporary halt to the construction.<\/p>\n<p>We think that athletes who attend the IRONMAN race and thus are guests on the Big Island should know about this situation and\u00a0the sacredness of this breath-taking mountain for the indigenous people. Then each of us can of course have his or her own opinion. What weighs more the observatory and the science behind or ancient sacredness? Not easy to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Here our short video clip from October 2014.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xIdTR4u5M1M\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"thrones of stars\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/2015\/04\/09\/game-of-thrones-stars-bumgarner-join-growing-mauna-kea-protest\/#photo-620178\">The protest spread&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"construction currently on hold\" href=\"https:\/\/sacredmaunakea.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/11\/for-immediate-release-4-11-15-sacred-mauna-kea-hui-press-release\/\">Sacred Mauna Kea BLOG&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauna Kea, April 2015 Last year when we have been on the Big Island for the IRONMAN world championships we\u00a0climbed Mauna Kea by foot. It was a magic walk that made us feel connected with the Island and this sacred place in a very different way. Exactly on that same day protesters had collected on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2295],"tags":[27,781,855,208,1813,1854,1892,1931,1975,2014,2066,2097,2100,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9843,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions\/9843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}