{"id":168212,"date":"2023-07-24T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/cocaine-sharks-off-florida-may-be-feasting-on-dumped-bales-of-drugs"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:22:26","slug":"cocaine-sharks-off-florida-may-be-feasting-on-dumped-bales-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/cocaine-sharks-off-florida-may-be-feasting-on-dumped-bales-of-drugs","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cocaine sharks\u2019 off Florida may be feasting on dumped bales of drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cocaine-sharks-off-florida-may-be-feasting-on-dumped-bales-of-drugs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other thing we might find is actually this long flow, [this] drip of pharmaceuticals: caffeine, lidocaine, cocaine, amphetamine, antidepressants, birth control \u2014 this long slow drift of them from cities into the [ocean] is\u2026 starting to hit these animals,\u201d Hird said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shark Week show delves into whether sharks off the coast of Florida are coming into contact with the huge quantities of cocaine that get dumped in these waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe other thing we might find is actually this long flow, [this] drip of pharmaceuticals: caffeine, lidocaine, cocaine, amphetamine, antidepressants, birth control \u2014 this long slow drift of them from cities into the [ocean] is\u2026 starting to hit these animals,\u201d Hird said. Shark Week show delves into whether sharks off the coast of Florida are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168212","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}