{"id":462054,"date":"2018-04-11T09:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9168bd82cf8bc3678eaf68f278a9b21a"},"modified":"2018-04-11T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:37:51","slug":"why-the-fuss-about-nurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=462054","title":{"rendered":"Why the fuss about nurdles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nurdles. The name sounds inoffensive, cuddly even\u2026. However, nurdles are anything but. &#8220;Nurdle&#8221; is the colloquial name for &#8220;pre-production plastic pellets&#8221; (which is in itself rather a mouthful); these are the raw material of the plastic industry \u2013 the building blocks for plastic bottles, plastic bags, drinking straws, car components, computer keyboards \u2013 in fact almost anything you can think of that&#8217;s made of plastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurdles. The name sounds inoffensive, cuddly even&hellip;. However, nurdles are anything but. &#8220;Nurdle&#8221; is the colloquial name for &#8220;pre-production plastic pellets&#8221; (which is in itself rather a mouthful); these are the raw material of the plastic industry &ndash; the building blocks for plastic bottles, plastic bags, drinking straws, car components, computer keyboards &ndash; in fact almost anything you can think of that&#8217;s made of plastic.<\/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-462054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462054","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=462054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462055,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462054\/revisions\/462055"}],"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=462054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}