{"id":74179,"date":"2015-06-26T02:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vnh.local\/transport\/?p=74179"},"modified":"2015-06-26T02:47:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T02:47:02","slug":"freight-transport-in-alaska-the-haul-of-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/2015\/06\/26\/freight-transport-in-alaska-the-haul-of-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight Transport in Alaska: The Haul of the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska distinguishes itself from the lower 48 states by its abundance of natural resources\u2014crude oil, natural gas, and seafood\u2014as well as breathtaking mountain ranges and vast acres of unspoiled land.<\/p>\n<p>It also presents logistics challenges: a small but widely dispersed population, many in locales reachable only by water or air; highly rugged terrain in much of the state; extreme weather; and limited rail and road infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Only 31 percent of Alaska&#8217;s roads are paved. Central Alaska is where the roads are, but they don&#8217;t reach southeast Alaska\u2014which typically requires barge transport\u2014or rural Alaska, where barge can reach the outskirts, but air is required <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska distinguishes itself from the lower 48 states by its abundance of natural resources\u2014crude oil, natural gas, and seafood\u2014as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[28,26,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdc.socodam.cd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}