{"id":13212,"date":"2013-01-04T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13212"},"modified":"2013-01-04T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T21:22:50","slug":"americas-real-criminal-element-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/01\/04\/americas-real-criminal-element-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Real Criminal Element: Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mother Jones<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Mother Jones Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/01\/lead-crime-link-gasoline\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>America&#8217;s Real Criminal Element: Lead<\/strong><\/a> by Kevin Drum.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After seeing this article posted on the Facebook pages of two friends, I thought it might be a good thing to read.\u00a0 It is a rather amazing story.<\/p>\n<p>I would have invented a quantum theory of general relativity by now if I hadn&#8217;t enjoyed melting lead fishing sinkers on the kitchen stove when i was younger.\u00a0 Maybe the lead helps account for my tumultuous career.\u00a0 Always did have a problem with authority figures.\u00a0 Then there were all those years of soldering electronics and the occasional plumbing fix with 60\/40 tin\/lead solder..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Jones has the article America&#8217;s Real Criminal Element: Lead by Kevin Drum. New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing. After seeing this article posted on the Facebook pages of two friends, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13213,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions\/13213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}