{"id":84654,"date":"2018-11-11T07:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-us-just-elected-9-new-scientists-to-congress-including-an-ocean-expert-a-nurse-and-a-biochemist-heres-the-full-list"},"modified":"2018-11-11T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:42:23","slug":"the-us-just-elected-9-new-scientists-to-congress-including-an-ocean-expert-a-nurse-and-a-biochemist-heres-the-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-us-just-elected-9-new-scientists-to-congress-including-an-ocean-expert-a-nurse-and-a-biochemist-heres-the-full-list","title":{"rendered":"The US just elected 9 new scientists to Congress, including an ocean expert, a nurse, and a biochemist. Here\u2019s the full list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-just-elected-9-new-scientists-to-congress-including-an-ocean-expert-a-nurse-and-a-biochemist-heres-the-full-list.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The faces of Capitol Hill are changing.<\/p>\n<p>When the 116th Congress heads to Washington in January, there will be a record number of women in the ranks \u2014 at least 123, according to the news website Axios, including the first Muslim women, the first Somali-American, and the first Native American women.<\/p>\n<p>There will be more scientists too.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2018-midterms-8-new-scientists-elected-to-house-senate-2018-11\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2018-midterms-8-new-scientis...018&#45;11<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faces of Capitol Hill are changing. When the 116th Congress heads to Washington in January, there will be a record number of women in the ranks \u2014 at least 123, according to the news website Axios, including the first Muslim women, the first Somali-American, and the first Native American women. There will be more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84654","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\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}