{"id":245521,"date":"2026-10-16T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/opinion-elon-musks-flying-roadster-shows-the-beauty-of-impractical-innovation"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:18:00","slug":"opinion-elon-musks-flying-roadster-shows-the-beauty-of-impractical-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/opinion-elon-musks-flying-roadster-shows-the-beauty-of-impractical-innovation","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Elon Musk\u2019s flying Roadster shows the beauty of impractical innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opinion-elon-musks-flying-roadster-shows-the-beauty-of-impractical-innovation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>History is littered with indispensable innovations that didn\u2019t immediately seem to have a practical purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is littered with indispensable innovations that didn\u2019t immediately seem to have a practical purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245521","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=245521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}