{"id":15450,"date":"2015-07-15T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:26:40","slug":"a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions","title":{"rendered":"A jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lasers vaporize radioactive material and cause a fusion reaction \u2014 in effect, a small thermonuclear explosion (credit: Patent Yogi\/YouTube) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lasers vaporize radioactive material and cause a fusion reaction \u2014 in effect, a small thermonuclear explosion (credit: Patent Yogi\/YouTube) Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69853,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions\/69853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}