{"id":73419,"date":"2017-10-21T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-december"},"modified":"2017-10-21T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T21:22:27","slug":"worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-december","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Human Head Transplant Will Take Place in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-december.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the first person to transplant a human head onto a deceased donor\u2019s body. Yes, he is planning on attempting the world\u2019s first human head transplant (or body transplant, depending on how you look at it).<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it has been about a year since his initial proclamation, and the Italian neurosurgeon still stands firm on his declaration, despite claims from other experts that it is nothing but a PR Stunt (at best) or a hoax. Some have even hypothesized it\u2019s all just a plot meant to promote Metal Gear Solid.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-techuniverse.com\/2017\/03\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will.html\">http:\/\/www.sci-techuniverse.com\/2017\/03\/worlds-first-human-h...-will.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the first person to transplant a human head onto a deceased donor\u2019s body. Yes, he is planning on attempting the world\u2019s first human head transplant (or body transplant, depending on how you look at it). In fact, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73419","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}