{"id":19528,"date":"2021-07-29T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=19528"},"modified":"2021-07-29T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:25:22","slug":"why-toxic-forever-chemicals-are-in-the-blood-of-most-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/07\/29\/why-toxic-forever-chemicals-are-in-the-blood-of-most-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Toxic &#8220;Forever Chemicals&#8221; are in the Blood of Most Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9l66TZZfLEg\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjHz5SVHeMT0AViCYZvsGDA\">NOVA PBS Official<\/a> What makes PFAS chemicals extremely useful\u2014and extremely hard to get rid of\u2014are the bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms that are almost impossible to break.  Read more about &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221; and their presence in our water and food on NOVA Next: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVYwNmVtd3hkUXplMkZPY09sMi1yQlM1UWNfZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttVlh2ZGVVdWZ6Yl9iY000ZW5WeHJXRk9iM2pWOFUxamVGT1FJcVhweWxIQVU2T0g3Zjhqdmc4YjRiaF9KWnpVc0laY2VaX2NxYVVZUkZBQzRnWmVCUVZmMmlET3RWeElJQkREbklVVzlUM2xVMUNFVQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fto.pbs.org%2F36uBIXl\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/36uBIXl<\/a>  PRODUCTION CREDITS:  Produced by: Emily Zendt  Additional camera: Alex Clark  Production assistance:  Shantal Riley  Christina Monnen  Amaris Pleas Buford  \u00a9 WGBH Educational Foundation 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOVA PBS Official What makes PFAS chemicals extremely useful\u2014and extremely hard to get rid of\u2014are the bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms that are almost impossible to break. Read more about &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221; and their presence in our water and food on NOVA Next: https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/36uBIXl PRODUCTION CREDITS: Produced by: Emily&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/07\/29\/why-toxic-forever-chemicals-are-in-the-blood-of-most-americans\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19529,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528\/revisions\/19529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}