{"id":166313,"date":"2023-06-24T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-child-genius-is-headed-to-college-at-12-and-wants-to-join-nasa-at-16"},"modified":"2023-06-24T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:23:41","slug":"a-child-genius-is-headed-to-college-at-12-and-wants-to-join-nasa-at-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-child-genius-is-headed-to-college-at-12-and-wants-to-join-nasa-at-16","title":{"rendered":"A Child Genius Is Headed to College at 12 and Wants to Join NASA at 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-child-genius-is-headed-to-college-at-12-and-wants-to-join-nasa-at-162.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If those two examples didn\u2019t make you feel like an underachiever, we now have news of yet another child prodigy. AP reported on Alena Wicker, a 12-year-old who has been accepted to Arizona State University (ASU) and who aims to become a NASA engineer by age 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If those two examples didn\u2019t make you feel like an underachiever, we now have news of yet another child prodigy. AP reported on Alena Wicker, a 12-year-old who has been accepted to Arizona State University (ASU) and who aims to become a NASA engineer by age 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166313","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=166313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}