{"id":173448,"date":"2023-10-04T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/50-years-ago-scientists-dreamed-of-lasers-that-could-kick-off-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2023-10-04T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:22:53","slug":"50-years-ago-scientists-dreamed-of-lasers-that-could-kick-off-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/50-years-ago-scientists-dreamed-of-lasers-that-could-kick-off-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago, Scientists Dreamed of Lasers That Could Kick Off Nuclear Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/50-years-ago-scientists-dreamed-of-lasers-that-could-kick-off-nuclear-fusion3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, lasers that could initiate nuclear fusion were a distant dream. Now, scientists are using such lasers to achieve fusion \u201cignition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, lasers that could initiate nuclear fusion were a distant dream. Now, scientists are using such lasers to achieve fusion \u201cignition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173448","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=173448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}