{"id":84447,"date":"2018-11-04T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/in-defense-of-elon-musk"},"modified":"2018-11-04T07:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T15:42:44","slug":"in-defense-of-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/in-defense-of-elon-musk","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-defense-of-elon-musk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is an engineer at heart, a tinkerer, a problem-solver\u2014the kind of person Popular Mechanics has always championed\u2014and the problems he\u2019s trying to solve are hard. Really hard. He could find better ways to spend his money, that\u2019s for sure. And yet there he is, trying to build <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/cars\/hybrid-electric\/a23085684\/review-tesla-model-3-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/cars\/hybrid-electric\/a23085684\/review-tesla-model-3-performance\/\">gasless cars<\/a> and build <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a23640822\/space-x-west-coast-falcon-9-landing\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a23640822\/space-x-west-coast-falcon-9-landing\/\">reusable rockets<\/a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a13987475\/musks-boring-company-may-get-its-first-job-in-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a13987475\/musks-boring-company-may-get-its-first-job-in-chicago\/\">build tunnels<\/a> that make traffic go away. For all his faults and unpredictability, we need him out there doing that. We need people who have ideas. We need people who take risks.<\/p>\n<p>We need people who try.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/rockets\/a23508636\/defense-of-elon-musk\/\">https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/rockets\/a23508636\/defense-of-elon-musk\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is an engineer at heart, a tinkerer, a problem-solver\u2014the kind of person Popular Mechanics has always championed\u2014and the problems he\u2019s trying to solve are hard. Really hard. He could find better ways to spend his money, that\u2019s for sure. And yet there he is, trying to build gasless cars and build reusable rockets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84447","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}