{"id":71470,"date":"2017-08-01T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/nasa-has-a-job-opening-for-someone-to-defend-earth-from-aliens-and-it-pays-a-six-figure-salary"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:39:56","slug":"nasa-has-a-job-opening-for-someone-to-defend-earth-from-aliens-and-it-pays-a-six-figure-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/nasa-has-a-job-opening-for-someone-to-defend-earth-from-aliens-and-it-pays-a-six-figure-salary","title":{"rendered":"NASA has a job opening for someone to defend Earth from aliens \u2014 and it pays a six-figure salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-has-a-job-opening-for-someone-to-defend-earth-from-aliens-and-it-pays-a-six-figure-salary.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US government scientists work hard to protect the public.<\/p>\n<p>Some study infectious diseases and effective treatments. Others ensure that drugs, food, vehicles, or consumer products live up to their claims and don\u2019t harm anyone.<\/p>\n<p>But the concerns at NASA\u2019s headquarters are, quite literally, extraterrestrial \u2014 which is why the space agency now has a job opening for \u201cplanetary protection officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-planetary-protection-officer-job-opening-2017-7?r=UK&IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-planetary-protection-off...?r=UK&IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US government scientists work hard to protect the public. Some study infectious diseases and effective treatments. Others ensure that drugs, food, vehicles, or consumer products live up to their claims and don\u2019t harm anyone. But the concerns at NASA\u2019s headquarters are, quite literally, extraterrestrial \u2014 which is why the space agency now has a job [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71470","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71698,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71470\/revisions\/71698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}