{"id":125463,"date":"2020-08-19T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=125463"},"modified":"2020-08-19T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T00:14:41","slug":"waikiki-aquarium-close-august-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/19\/waikiki-aquarium-close-august-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Waik\u012bk\u012b Aquarium to close August 20 in wake of recent county order"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/waikiki-aquarium.jpg\" alt=\"the front of the Waikiki Aquarium\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-113952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/waikiki-aquarium.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/waikiki-aquarium-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/waikiki-aquarium-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waikikiaquarium.org\/\">Waik\u012bk\u012b Aquarium<\/a> announced it will close at the end of day, August 19, 2020, for an undetermined period. The decision was made following the county\u2019s most recent &ldquo;Act Now Honolulu&rdquo; order. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was a difficult yet necessary decision,&rdquo; said <strong>Andrew Rossiter<\/strong>, director of the Waik\u012bk\u012b Aquarium. &ldquo;Owing to the COVID situation, the aquarium is also in a perilous financial situation and we simply cannot sustain ourselves in this current environment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>All staff not involved in facility maintenance and ongoing care of animals will revert to work-from-home conditions. The aquarium will continue to offer virtual experiences <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waikikiaquarium.org\/\">on its website<\/a> and through social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was made following the county\u2019s most recent \u201cAct Now Honolulu\u201d order. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,1418,9,302],"class_list":["post-125463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-announcement","tag-uh-manoa","tag-waikiki-aquarium","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125463"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125465,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125463\/revisions\/125465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}