{"id":631788,"date":"2019-09-24T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=631788"},"modified":"2019-09-24T03:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:30:21","slug":"microplastics-in-the-great-lakes-becoming-benthic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=631788","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics in the Great Lakes: Becoming benthic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Great Pacific garbage patch to inland rivers, plastics are among the most widespread contaminants on Earth. Microplastics\u2014particles of plastic smaller than five millimeters\u2014are especially pervasive. As they build up in Earth&#8217;s waters, microplastics are also becoming a permanent part of the planet&#8217;s sedimentary layers.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-microplastics-great-lakes-benthic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Microplastics in the Great Lakes: Becoming benthic<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Great Pacific garbage patch to inland rivers, plastics are among the most widespread contaminants on Earth. Microplastics\u2014particles of plastic smaller than five millimeters\u2014are especially pervasive. As they build&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631788","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631788\/revisions"}],"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=631788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}