{"id":92769,"date":"2019-06-27T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-stumbled-upon-a-plastic-eating-bacterium-then-accidentally-made-it-stronger"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T22:23:00","slug":"scientists-stumbled-upon-a-plastic-eating-bacterium-then-accidentally-made-it-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-stumbled-upon-a-plastic-eating-bacterium-then-accidentally-made-it-stronger","title":{"rendered":"Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium\u2014then accidentally made it stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-stumbled-upon-a-plastic-eating-bacterium-then-accidentally-made-it-stronger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re slowly suffocating a lot of natural ecologies with our trash. Fish, birds, and other animals all unwittingly consume the five trillion tons of plastic (and counting) strewn about the ocean, and doing so can kill them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re slowly suffocating a lot of natural ecologies with our trash. Fish, birds, and other animals all unwittingly consume the five trillion tons of plastic (and counting) strewn about the ocean, and doing so can kill them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92769","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=92769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}