{"id":260186,"date":"2017-01-11T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d217ae05efef1cc5f53ac7a30ee64809"},"modified":"2017-01-11T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:08:33","slug":"how-your-cozy-fleece-could-be-polluting-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=260186","title":{"rendered":"How your cozy fleece could be polluting the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fleece is a wintertime staple but could be contributing to the next big ocean plastics problem: lint. The lightweight, cozy material sheds some of its synthetic microfibers each time it&#8217;s washed, and this lint ultimately ends up in surface waters and in fish and other wildlife. An article in Chemical &#038; Engineering News (C&#038;EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, looks into the problem and possible solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleece is a wintertime staple but could be contributing to the next big ocean plastics problem: lint. The lightweight, cozy material sheds some of its synthetic microfibers each time it&#8217;s washed, and this lint ultimately ends up in surface waters and in fish and other wildlife. An article in Chemical &amp; Engineering News (C&amp;EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, looks into the problem and possible solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260187,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260186\/revisions\/260187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}