{"id":2314,"date":"2012-12-28T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2012-12-28T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:29:44","slug":"michael-specter-germs-are-us-the-new-yorker-october-22-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/michael-specter-germs-are-us-the-new-yorker-october-22-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Specter, &#8220;Germs Are Us,&#8221; The New Yorker, October 22, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/images\/covers\/2012\/2012_10_22_p323.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"264\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NewYorker.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bacteria=bad, right? \u00a0Well, not always, and perhaps not usually.<\/p>\n<p>The abstract for this story gives one a taste for the discoveries within it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Human beings are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; the bacteria living inside us weigh, all told, about three pounds (the same as our brain). These bacteria work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts to prevent infections; they help to form and bolster our immune systems, and digest food. Recent research suggests that they may even alter our brain chemistry, thus affecting our moods and behavior; when certain kinds of bacteria are destroyed, conditions like asthma and obesity, may result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2012\/10\/22\/121022fa_fact_specter\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2012\/10\/22\/121022fa_fact_specter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria=bad, right? \u00a0Well, not always, and perhaps not usually. The abstract for this story gives one a taste for the discoveries within it: Human beings are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; the bacteria living inside us weigh, all told, about three pounds (the same as our brain). These bacteria work constantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[143],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-read","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}