{"id":76254,"date":"2018-02-23T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T09:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/meet-the-scientists-running-to-transform-congress-in-2018"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:06:49","slug":"meet-the-scientists-running-to-transform-congress-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/meet-the-scientists-running-to-transform-congress-in-2018","title":{"rendered":"Meet the scientists running to transform Congress in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-scientists-running-to-transform-congress-in-2018.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But first, science candidates must win their races. Most face long odds. For starters, voters may be impressed by a candidate\u2019s scientific credentials, but such background is rarely a decisive factor when they go to the polls. In addition, most of this year\u2019s STEM candidates are political novices who are starting out far behind their opponents when it comes to knowing how to run a professional campaign.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>House races feature unusual upsurge in entrants with technical backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/02\/meet-scientists-running-transform-congress-2018\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/02\/meet-scientists-runni...gress-2018<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But first, science candidates must win their races. Most face long odds. For starters, voters may be impressed by a candidate\u2019s scientific credentials, but such background is rarely a decisive factor when they go to the polls. In addition, most of this year\u2019s STEM candidates are political novices who are starting out far behind their [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76254","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=76254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76347,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76254\/revisions\/76347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}