{"id":156856,"date":"2023-02-02T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/how-modern-day-slavery-in-the-congo-powers-the-rechargeable-battery-economy"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:22:18","slug":"how-modern-day-slavery-in-the-congo-powers-the-rechargeable-battery-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/how-modern-day-slavery-in-the-congo-powers-the-rechargeable-battery-economy","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018modern-day slavery\u2019 in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-modern-day-slavery-in-the-congo-powers-the-rechargeable-battery-economy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a \u201chorror show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a \u201chorror show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156856","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}