{"id":114857,"date":"2026-06-08T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/opinion-u-s-lead-in-science-is-shrinking-fast-as-china-india-and-even-iran-catch-up-yakima-herald-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:05:47","slug":"opinion-u-s-lead-in-science-is-shrinking-fast-as-china-india-and-even-iran-catch-up-yakima-herald-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/08\/opinion-u-s-lead-in-science-is-shrinking-fast-as-china-india-and-even-iran-catch-up-yakima-herald-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: U.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up &#8211; Yakima Herald-Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi8wFBVV95cUxQWkdFSUgtZGVBbXkydWd1R1V4ZzAyS3Y1SFRSSjZ2Yk5MQ2NfbDZsTkRTR1A0cVVjU2F5S3JiRGhUZlhqSVJEN0F4YmYtTG1sNjVfUjJjYktidWZuR09WenU5b3UzSGg1dkNvNnR4TFJ1OWIzNXJyallDbEg0eGQ4WVRIMjVYLU9nZk1YM1Q3d005VWEwdHRVUDRwbnY2Q1d1Ty1iUXpsTFJMalpNY2dCbXJlcjdFQThfalU0NjRZQzhySXNpOGRhQnR3TmQyZHhKM2pQSnhJc1VVSHVkcGdNUGViWkVwRUxZcGpiWlBsRTI3cUnSAfgBQVVfeXFMTm9YM3J6S2gzbVBGV0ZnSDBjcEYzd2hMaW1pQ2UyUEU0SlJwN19pXzBoTzNZamRzQlkwZWlfVWFmdWxOby1nNTdSNmRCOVBBMG9EMldobWhMc0tBc1pobFFIU2ZJX1pDeGZKM1RkZUVnVWdyeTdrQlJ4QmFSVGtCWDFESWpCZ2tpLTBCOWlSVHI0aXBXcmFhY3UyRTQzbHBZYi0wMGxlcmhBNVNsa1NoYlNzMVJqdXVMNTgwODdxanpEdDNIMGRQaU51bWF4QzlRZ19Qbi1KdFlDczc3LXdGb2htWFpQU0FESDk4ZkxwZ01HaWRjbzBuSXo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: U.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Yakima Herald-Republic<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: U.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up&nbsp;&nbsp;Yakima Herald-Republic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}