{"id":227899,"date":"2025-12-27T01:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/will-gut-bacteria-ever-be-able-to-digest-microplastics"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:03:33","slug":"will-gut-bacteria-ever-be-able-to-digest-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/will-gut-bacteria-ever-be-able-to-digest-microplastics","title":{"rendered":"Will Gut Bacteria Ever Be Able to Digest Microplastics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-gut-bacteria-ever-be-able-to-digest-microplastics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gut bacteria are evolving fast to handle modern diets. A new Nature study raises a fascinating question about whether microbes could adapt to microplastics next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gut bacteria are evolving fast to handle modern diets. A new Nature study raises a fascinating question about whether microbes could adapt to microplastics next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227899","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\/735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}