{"id":789,"date":"2011-03-16T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=789"},"modified":"2011-03-16T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:19:12","slug":"lets-not-go-overboard-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s not go overboard here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/calemanews.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/16\/statement-from-california%E2%80%99s-department-of-public-health-and-emergency-management-agency-on-risk-of-radiation-exposure\/\">no need to be taking Potassium Iodide<\/a>, because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan is a really long way away, and any release of radioactive material would disperse before reaching the US.\n<li>Iodine-131 exposure apparently doesn&#8217;t increase the risk of thyroid cancer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iodine-131#Effects_of_exposure\">unless you&#8217;re a kid<\/a>.\n<li>It is likely to do <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potassium_iodide#Adverse_reactions\">more harm than good<\/a>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no need to be taking Potassium Iodide, because: Japan is a really long way away, and any release of radioactive material would disperse before reaching the US. Iodine-131 exposure apparently doesn&#8217;t increase the risk of thyroid cancer unless you&#8217;re a kid. It is likely to do more harm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}