{"id":94096,"date":"2019-07-24T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-trying-to-solve-death-makes-life-here-and-now-worse"},"modified":"2019-07-24T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:22:44","slug":"how-trying-to-solve-death-makes-life-here-and-now-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-trying-to-solve-death-makes-life-here-and-now-worse","title":{"rendered":"How trying to solve death makes life, here and now, worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/2258005627628171?fields=format\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>Death is inevitable, says <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Michael.Brant.Shermer\/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBBjIVSSCpF_JpqU5KVW3Kip1sbM9AlyB1QBwkZDR8gC0SFcYkCuFVYbPz755bNCcnDDlDxPYPVTrZmVgzkKxHsMcFQpe2z8VpeSpCuOMn2-XgRvWLEpPW8jgaqAG3T0DdyONKaMLt2VyWS0E2lEzVxxpSXGUwF1ngzyflLsnb54TKE2tqzIAQ0j_VKsDgeevB7mji85Yd-JiTOdNQ4I0yyebXBVBIhFMmkzC2tuDv9ZOQeehU8A88L79uwvrLgoUz9HknhJ95r4ymuAIs0VVIIfYC3m9K_YG5sIrYmMUD5Sm8mIlyIs6_IvB2irtkP&__tn__=K-R\">Michael Shermer<\/a>. So why sweat it? Over 100 billion people have died before us, so maybe our fear of death is making our lives worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death is inevitable, says Michael Shermer. So why sweat it? Over 100 billion people have died before us, so maybe our fear of death is making our lives worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94096","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}