{"id":92929,"date":"2019-07-01T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/wired-bacteria-form-natures-power-grid-we-have-an-electric-planet"},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:02:15","slug":"wired-bacteria-form-natures-power-grid-we-have-an-electric-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/wired-bacteria-form-natures-power-grid-we-have-an-electric-planet","title":{"rendered":"Wired Bacteria Form Nature\u2019s Power Grid: \u2018We Have an Electric Planet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wired-bacteria-form-natures-power-grid-we-have-an-electric-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At three o\u2019clock in the afternoon on September 4, 1882, the electrical age began. The Edison Illuminating Company switched on its Pearl Street power plant, and a network of copper wires came alive, delivering current to a few dozen buildings in the surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Electroactive bacteria were running current through \u201cwires\u201d long before humans learned the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At three o\u2019clock in the afternoon on September 4, 1882, the electrical age began. The Edison Illuminating Company switched on its Pearl Street power plant, and a network of copper wires came alive, delivering current to a few dozen buildings in the surrounding neighborhood. Electroactive bacteria were running current through \u201cwires\u201d long before humans learned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92929","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}