{"id":596904,"date":"2019-03-26T03:40:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5c9126ada8a98b4b2fa067e544773aa1"},"modified":"2019-03-26T03:40:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T07:40:54","slug":"how-to-protect-gymnasts-from-hazardous-chemicals-at-gym-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=596904","title":{"rendered":"How to protect gymnasts from hazardous chemicals at gym facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a gymnast has its risks\u2014the countless jumps, twists, and landings can take a toll on the body. But there&#8217;s another, invisible risk: the equipment used in training contains hazardous flame retardant chemicals that accumulate in air and dust, and eventually end up in the athletes&#8217; bodies. A new study, however, shows that replacing the foam cubes in the landing pits with flame retardant-free alternatives can significantly lower their exposures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a gymnast has its risks&mdash;the countless jumps, twists, and landings can take a toll on the body. But there&#8217;s another, invisible risk: the equipment used in training contains hazardous flame retardant chemicals that accumulate in air and dust, and eventually end up in the athletes&#8217; bodies. A new study, however, shows that replacing the foam cubes in the landing pits with flame retardant-free alternatives can significantly lower their exposures.<\/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-596904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596904","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=596904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596905,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596904\/revisions\/596905"}],"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=596904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}