{"id":353963,"date":"2017-08-03T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a2d4ad14f6a1b3647fa653ee84010cee"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:28:00","slug":"do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-nasas-next-planetary-protection-officer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=353963","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have What It Takes To Be NASA&#8217;s Next Planetary Protection Officer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/08\/03\/5052124705_c513d4a5a0_o_wide-b22b1ff0bb6031e7bd9e9619fd04a5ce6923e2f4.jpg?s=600' alt='The goals of the planetary protection officer are to protect the Earth and to protect other planets from being contaminated by substances from Earth during exploration.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The job posting has elicited headlines about how the space agency is seeking a person to defend Earth from aliens. But it&#8217;s really more about microorganisms than little green men.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=541352728' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The job posting has elicited headlines about how the space agency is seeking a person to defend Earth from aliens. But it&#8217;s really more about microorganisms than little green men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353964,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353963\/revisions\/353964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}