{"id":78679,"date":"2018-05-15T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/facing-a-future-of-ethical-dilemmas"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:05:39","slug":"facing-a-future-of-ethical-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/facing-a-future-of-ethical-dilemmas","title":{"rendered":"Facing a future of ethical dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facing-a-future-of-ethical-dilemmas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new article out by Vicki Larson at the Marin Independent Journal that explores some #transhumanism.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I visited my parents\u2019 grave on Mother\u2019s Day, as I have every year since my mom died in 2010. I\u2019ll be back on the 23rd, the fifth anniversary of my dad\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate to be able to tell them how much I loved them and appreciated everything they did for me before they died, so there are no regrets, nothing left unsaid. I miss them. A lot. But would I want to bring them back to life?<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d no doubt be delighted to see the wonderful young men their only grandchildren have become. And I think they\u2019d be pretty happy to know that I actually did get around to writing a book as I promised them I would as a teen, when I begged them to let me travel cross-country with friends to gather \u201cresearch\u201d for my Great American Novel instead of spending the summer working.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinij.com\/lifestyle\/20180514\/facing-a-future-of-ethical-dilemmas\">http:\/\/www.marinij.com\/lifestyle\/20180514\/facing-a-future-of-ethical-dilemmas<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article out by Vicki Larson at the Marin Independent Journal that explores some #transhumanism. I visited my parents\u2019 grave on Mother\u2019s Day, as I have every year since my mom died in 2010. I\u2019ll be back on the 23rd, the fifth anniversary of my dad\u2019s death. I was fortunate to be able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78679","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78692,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78679\/revisions\/78692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}