{"id":234418,"date":"2026-04-01T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-surgeon-who-wants-to-perform-the-worlds-first-head-transplant-and-prove-that-death-is-optional"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:03:27","slug":"the-surgeon-who-wants-to-perform-the-worlds-first-head-transplant-and-prove-that-death-is-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-surgeon-who-wants-to-perform-the-worlds-first-head-transplant-and-prove-that-death-is-optional","title":{"rendered":"The Surgeon Who Wants to Perform the World\u2019s First Head Transplant\u2014And Prove That Death Is Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-surgeon-who-wants-to-perform-the-worlds-first-head-transplant-and-prove-that-death-is-optional.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He insists his plan is inevitable and will unlock radical life extension. But when scalpel meets skin, is it survivable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He insists his plan is inevitable and will unlock radical life extension. But when scalpel meets skin, is it survivable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234418","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}