{"id":75788,"date":"2018-02-06T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/the-largest-number-of-scientists-in-modern-u-s-history-are-running-for-office-in-2018"},"modified":"2018-02-06T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T09:22:36","slug":"the-largest-number-of-scientists-in-modern-u-s-history-are-running-for-office-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/the-largest-number-of-scientists-in-modern-u-s-history-are-running-for-office-in-2018","title":{"rendered":"The Largest Number Of Scientists In Modern U.S. History Are Running For Office In 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-largest-number-of-scientists-in-modern-u-s-history-are-running-for-office-in-2018.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least 200 candidates with previous careers in science, technology, engineering and math announced bids for some of the nation\u2019s roughly 7,000 state legislature seats as of Jan. 31, according to data that 314 Action, a political action committee, shared exclusively with HuffPost.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This comes at a time when there\u2019s only one Ph.D. scientist in Congress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/science-candidates_us_5a74fffde4b06ee97af2ae60\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/science-candidates_us_5...e97af2ae60<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 200 candidates with previous careers in science, technology, engineering and math announced bids for some of the nation\u2019s roughly 7,000 state legislature seats as of Jan. 31, according to data that 314 Action, a political action committee, shared exclusively with HuffPost. This comes at a time when there\u2019s only one Ph.D. scientist in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1490,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-government","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75788","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=75788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}