{"id":230391,"date":"2026-02-03T01:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-brain-may-be-wired-for-drinking-before-the-first-sip"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:33:17","slug":"the-brain-may-be-wired-for-drinking-before-the-first-sip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-brain-may-be-wired-for-drinking-before-the-first-sip","title":{"rendered":"The Brain May Be Wired for Drinking Before the First Sip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brain-may-be-wired-for-drinking-before-the-first-sip2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alcohol exposure before birth may quietly set the brain on a path toward risky drinking decades later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol exposure before birth may quietly set the brain on a path toward risky drinking decades later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230391","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}