{"id":242944,"date":"2026-08-20T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/china-finishes-first-phase-of-construction-at-south-china-sea-reef-images-show"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:02:26","slug":"china-finishes-first-phase-of-construction-at-south-china-sea-reef-images-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/china-finishes-first-phase-of-construction-at-south-china-sea-reef-images-show","title":{"rendered":"China finishes first phase of construction at South China Sea reef, images show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-finishes-first-phase-of-construction-at-south-china-sea-reef-images-show.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project, on Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago, involves building a man-made island analysts say will form part of China\u2019s largest military base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project, on Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago, involves building a man-made island analysts say will form part of China\u2019s largest military base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}