{"id":229990,"date":"2026-01-28T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:08:42","slug":"is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard","title":{"rendered":"Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229990","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}