{"id":993,"date":"2019-02-28T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/28\/a-troubling-discovery-in-the-deepest-ocean\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:53:10","slug":"a-troubling-discovery-in-the-deepest-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/28\/a-troubling-discovery-in-the-deepest-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2019\/02\/deepest-ocean-trenches-animals-eat-plastic\/583657\/'>A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>world produces an estimated 10 tons of plastic a second, and between 5 million and 14 million tons sweep into the oceans every year. Some of that debris washes up on beaches, even on the world\u2019s most isolated islands. About 5 trillion pieces currently float in surface waters, mostly in the form of tiny, easy-to-swallow fragments that have ended up in the gut <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches world produces an estimated 10 tons of plastic a second, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-science","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}