{"id":928,"date":"2009-01-22T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T19:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/01\/22\/a-3-billion-bonanza-for-nsf-scienceinsider\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T19:31:59","slug":"a-3-billion-bonanza-for-nsf-scienceinsider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/a-3-billion-bonanza-for-nsf-scienceinsider\/","title":{"rendered":"A $3 Billion Bonanza for NSF? &#8211; ScienceInsider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow excellent news!<br \/>\nA $3 Billion Bonanza for NSF?<br \/>\nOfficials at the National Science Foundation are still pinching themselves over the agency&#8217;s high profile in the $825 billion package of proposed tax cuts and new spending that Democrats introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. The basic research agency is slated to get a $3 billion temporary bump up&#8211;half its current $6 billion budget&#8211;to spend in the next 20 months on research, training, instrumentation, and infrastructure projects. If the money materializes, the challenge for NSF officials will be to avoid a boom-and-bust cycle like the one being endured by its much larger sister agency, the National Institutes of Health.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sciencemag.org\/scienceinsider\/2009\/01\/a-3-billion-bon.html\">A $3 Billion Bonanza for NSF? &#8211; ScienceInsider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow excellent news! A $3 Billion Bonanza for NSF? Officials at the National Science Foundation are still pinching themselves over the agency&#8217;s high profile in the $825 billion package of proposed tax cuts and new spending that Democrats introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. The basic research agency is slated to get a $3 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/a-3-billion-bonanza-for-nsf-scienceinsider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A $3 Billion Bonanza for NSF? &#8211; ScienceInsider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}