{"id":160329,"date":"2023-03-15T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-anthropocene-has-created-a-new-disease-plasticosis"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:22:19","slug":"the-anthropocene-has-created-a-new-disease-plasticosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-anthropocene-has-created-a-new-disease-plasticosis","title":{"rendered":"The Anthropocene Has Created A New Disease: Plasticosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-anthropocene-has-created-a-new-disease-plasticosis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly identified disease called Plasticosis is scarring the tissue of seabirds, and probably us as well. Its cause: microplastic pollution.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Plasticosis or Plastic-Induced Fibrotic Disease has been discovered in seabirds caused by ingesting microplastic pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly identified disease called Plasticosis is scarring the tissue of seabirds, and probably us as well. Its cause: microplastic pollution. Plasticosis or Plastic-Induced Fibrotic Disease has been discovered in seabirds caused by ingesting microplastic pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160329","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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}