{"id":69196,"date":"2021-03-29T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-sinking-the-malaspina-is-a-good-idea\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T06:30:00","slug":"opinion-sinking-the-malaspina-is-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-sinking-the-malaspina-is-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Sinking the Malaspina is a good idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a little low-cost magic to the retired old <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alaska-legislature-transportation-c37ec6c1932762147c7e1869bf69ea20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state ferry Malaspina<\/a> sounds like a terrific idea!<\/p>\n<p>For $1 million or less we can clean and sink her; and then turn her into an amazingly wonderful food-fish and crab habitat and perhaps an underwater Alaska sealife observatory as well.<\/p>\n<p>The creative and sustainable seafood extraction opportunities abound.<\/p>\n<p>The fist positive idea I have seen from this administration.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos,<\/p>\n<p><em>Cay McDowall,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anchorage<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><ins><em>&#8226; Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/em><\/ins><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fist positive idea I have seen from this administration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":69197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-69196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69196"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}