{"id":18739,"date":"2015-10-25T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/two-party-politics-has-killed-independents-day"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:54:57","slug":"two-party-politics-has-killed-independents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/two-party-politics-has-killed-independents-day","title":{"rendered":"Two-party politics has killed independent\u2019s day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/multimedia\/archive\/00990\/Rhys_Blakely_on_Don_990308a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transhumanism featured in The Times of London, a major UK paper. Sorry, you do need a subscription, I think:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Zoltan Istvan is campaigning for the White House by promising voters everlasting life. He is the Transhumanist party\u2019s presidential nominee and he is touring the US in a vehicle shaped like a coffin that he calls the immortality bus.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that technology will eventually allow humans to live for ever. His message, he says, is connecting with the millennial generation who were born from the early 80s onwards. But he has little money and his bus, which is very old, keeps breaking down. \u201cI know what the chances are,\u201d he told me of his attempt to capture the Oval\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/world\/article4594653.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transhumanism featured in The Times of London, a major UK paper. Sorry, you do need a subscription, I think: Zoltan Istvan is campaigning for the White House by promising voters everlasting life. He is the Transhumanist party\u2019s presidential nominee and he is touring the US in a vehicle shaped like a coffin that he calls [\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-18739","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\/18739","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=18739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45465,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739\/revisions\/45465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}