{"id":106445,"date":"2020-05-03T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/can-genetic-engineering-bring-back-the-american-chestnut"},"modified":"2020-05-03T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:59:20","slug":"can-genetic-engineering-bring-back-the-american-chestnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/can-genetic-engineering-bring-back-the-american-chestnut","title":{"rendered":"Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-genetic-engineering-bring-back-the-american-chestnut2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tree helped build industrial America before disease wiped out an estimated three billion or more of them. To revive their lost glory, we may need to embrace tinkering with nature.<\/p>\n<p>An American chestnut near Rockport, Maine. Credit\u2026 John Chiara for The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tree helped build industrial America before disease wiped out an estimated three billion or more of them. To revive their lost glory, we may need to embrace tinkering with nature. An American chestnut near Rockport, Maine. Credit\u2026 John Chiara for The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106445","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106462,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106445\/revisions\/106462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}