{"id":173549,"date":"2023-10-05T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-future-of-poop"},"modified":"2023-10-05T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:36:35","slug":"the-future-of-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-future-of-poop","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-poop2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of things to detest about poop. It\u2019s poop, for one. It smells. It carries disease. It never stops being produced. But that aside, there\u2019s a lot to like about poop.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the world\u2019s most plentiful sources of nutrients for fertilizers. Processed properly, poop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/02\/21\/l-a-hotel-guests-drank-and-bathed-in-corpse-contaminated-water-for-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\">can also be converted into electricity<\/a>. It even be used as new artistic medium, though somebody\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturekiosque.com\/art\/news\/rheturn.htm\" target=\"_blank\">already scooped up the prize<\/a> for poop painting. As the world\u2019s population grows, both the positive and the negative effects of poop on public health and the environment will only grow, so a burgeoning group of brave scientists are trying to figure out how to make the best of a crappy situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of things to detest about poop. It\u2019s poop, for one. It smells. It carries disease. It never stops being produced. But that aside, there\u2019s a lot to like about poop. It\u2019s one of the world\u2019s most plentiful sources of nutrients for fertilizers. Processed properly, poop can also be converted into electricity. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173549","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}