{"id":90482,"date":"2019-05-09T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/i-dont-plan-to-die-the-immortality-movement-is-going-mainstream"},"modified":"2019-05-09T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:42:24","slug":"i-dont-plan-to-die-the-immortality-movement-is-going-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/i-dont-plan-to-die-the-immortality-movement-is-going-mainstream","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t plan to die:\u201d The immortality movement is going mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-dont-plan-to-die-the-immortality-movement-is-going-mainstream3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his 1971 State of the Union address, president Richard Nixon promised to kick off what would soon come to be known as the War on Cancer, asking congress for a $100 million appropriation to launch a campaign for finding a cure. \u201cThe time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease,\u201d he said. \u201cLet us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Welcome to the War on Aging, where death is optional.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1597053\/the-transhumanist-anti-death-movement-wants-to-go-mainstream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1971 State of the Union address, president Richard Nixon promised to kick off what would soon come to be known as the War on Cancer, asking congress for a $100 million appropriation to launch a campaign for finding a cure. \u201cThe time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,269,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-life-extension","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90482","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=90482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}