{"id":73668,"date":"2017-11-05T02:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/house-science-chair-to-retire-from-congress"},"modified":"2017-11-05T02:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T10:02:28","slug":"house-science-chair-to-retire-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/house-science-chair-to-retire-from-congress","title":{"rendered":"House science chair to retire from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/house-science-chair-to-retire-from-congress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The controversial chairperson of the science committee in the U.S. House of Representatives announced today that he will not seek re-election to Congress next fall. The pending departure of Representative Lamar Smith (R\u2013TX) could give the U.S. scientific community a chance to recalibrate a rocky 5-year relationship with a key congressional committee.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Representative Lamar Smith\u2019s tenure marked by bitter clashes with science community.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/11\/house-science-chair-retire-congress\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/11\/house-science-chair-retire-congress<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial chairperson of the science committee in the U.S. House of Representatives announced today that he will not seek re-election to Congress next fall. The pending departure of Representative Lamar Smith (R\u2013TX) could give the U.S. scientific community a chance to recalibrate a rocky 5-year relationship with a key congressional committee. Representative Lamar Smith\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73668","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}