{"id":661756,"date":"2020-07-23T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661756"},"modified":"2020-07-23T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:39:04","slug":"mercury-remains-a-persistent-poison-in-connecticuts-still-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661756","title":{"rendered":"Mercury remains a persistent poison in Connecticut&#039;s Still River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Connecticut is known for rolling hills, rich history, and industry, such as hat making. Once called the &#8220;Hat City of the World,&#8221; Danbury thrived. Anyone familiar with Lewis Carroll&#8217;s Mad Hatter may also be aware of the dangers of hat making, due to the industry&#8217;s use of the potent toxin mercury. Starting in the late 1700s, Danbury hat factories were a point source of pollution, dumping large quantities of mercury into the nearby Still River.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-mercury-persistent-poison-connecticut-river.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mercury remains a persistent poison in Connecticut&#8217;s Still River<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Connecticut is known for rolling hills, rich history, and industry, such as hat making. Once called the &#8220;Hat City of the World,&#8221; Danbury thrived. Anyone familiar with Lewis Carroll&#8217;s&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-661756","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\/661756","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=661756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661756\/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=661756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}