{"id":74261,"date":"2017-12-08T01:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/this-scientist-wants-to-bring-star-trek-values-to-congress"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:22","slug":"this-scientist-wants-to-bring-star-trek-values-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/this-scientist-wants-to-bring-star-trek-values-to-congress","title":{"rendered":"This Scientist Wants to Bring \u2018Star Trek\u2019 Values to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-scientist-wants-to-bring-star-trek-values-to-congress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vulcanologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jess2018.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jess Phoenix<\/a> never expected to be involved in politics. Until recently her life revolved around science\u2014traveling the world to study different volcanoes and running an educational nonprofit. But the environmental record of the Trump administration has motivated her to run for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are basically gutting every environmental protection that existed,\u201d Phoenix says in Episode 284 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksguideshow.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Geek\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em><\/a> podcast. \u201cIt\u2019s a trend we have to stop now. We can\u2019t let this continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/12\/geeks-guide-jess-phoenix\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/12\/geeks-guide-jess-phoenix\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulcanologist Jess Phoenix never expected to be involved in politics. Until recently her life revolved around science\u2014traveling the world to study different volcanoes and running an educational nonprofit. But the environmental record of the Trump administration has motivated her to run for Congress. \u201cThese guys are basically gutting every environmental protection that existed,\u201d Phoenix says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261","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=74261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74395,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261\/revisions\/74395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}