{"id":17966,"date":"2015-09-29T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/jonathan-weiner-immortality-and-the-2016-campaign"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:25","slug":"jonathan-weiner-immortality-and-the-2016-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/jonathan-weiner-immortality-and-the-2016-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Weiner: Immortality and the 2016 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jonathan-weiner-immortality-and-the-2016-campaign2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer-prize winning science writer Jonathan Weiner writing about transhumanism and longevity issues: <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Science writer Jonathan Weiner writes: Even if you\u2019ve been following the presidential campaign pretty closely, you may not have heard about Zoltan Istvan, the hopeful from the newly formed Transhumanist Party. Istvan\u2019s platform is simple: We should all live forever. He\u2019s driving across the country in a bus painted to look like a coffin, with big white letters on its side: \u201cImmortality Bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/opinion\/readers-opinion\/as-i-see-it\/article36967344.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulitzer-prize winning science writer Jonathan Weiner writing about transhumanism and longevity issues: Science writer Jonathan Weiner writes: Even if you\u2019ve been following the presidential campaign pretty closely, you may not have heard about Zoltan Istvan, the hopeful from the newly formed Transhumanist Party. Istvan\u2019s platform is simple: We should all live forever. He\u2019s driving across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69449,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/69449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}