{"id":239261,"date":"2026-06-18T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/this-man-with-als-is-the-first-power-user-of-a-brain-implant-that-lets-him-speak"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:12:59","slug":"this-man-with-als-is-the-first-power-user-of-a-brain-implant-that-lets-him-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/this-man-with-als-is-the-first-power-user-of-a-brain-implant-that-lets-him-speak","title":{"rendered":"This man with ALS is \u201cthe first power user\u201d of a brain implant that lets him speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vu0sIMN_CU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Casey Harrell uses his implants to talk to friends and family, read to his young daughter, and perform his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Harrell uses his implants to talk to friends and family, read to his young daughter, and perform his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239261","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}