{"id":73984,"date":"2017-11-29T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/genetically-engineering-yourself-sounds-like-a-horrible-idea-but-this-guy-is-doing-it-anyway"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:28","slug":"genetically-engineering-yourself-sounds-like-a-horrible-idea-but-this-guy-is-doing-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/genetically-engineering-yourself-sounds-like-a-horrible-idea-but-this-guy-is-doing-it-anyway","title":{"rendered":"Genetically Engineering Yourself Sounds Like a Horrible Idea\u2014But This Guy Is Doing It Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetically-engineering-yourself-sounds-like-a-horrible-idea-but-this-guy-is-doing-it-anyway.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something goes wrong, I can just chop off that part of the skin.\u201d Josiah Zayner took a swig from his beer and squinted into the spotlight. He was already kind of drunk. He also hadn\u2019t bothered to write a speech. Tattooed and heavily pierced with a shock of blue-gray hair, he shuffled around uneasily on stage. But 150-odd people had flown in from around the country to hear him speak\u2014the mad pirate-king of biotech. \u201cIt all is coming from my heart,\u201d he said, choking up a little. \u201cEverything you\u2019re going to hear today is me to the core.\u201d Advertisement Zayner\u2019s audiencesat in the fashionably\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEKPCzb-ibEd9hHVmXa-Z5ToqFQgEKg0IACoGCAowlIECMLBMMJ-mHg\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEKPCzb-ibEd9hHVmXa...MLBMMJ-mHg<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf something goes wrong, I can just chop off that part of the skin.\u201d Josiah Zayner took a swig from his beer and squinted into the spotlight. He was already kind of drunk. He also hadn\u2019t bothered to write a speech. Tattooed and heavily pierced with a shock of blue-gray hair, he shuffled around uneasily [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74072,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73984\/revisions\/74072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}