{"id":17364,"date":"2022-04-22T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/?p=17364"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:28:04","slug":"earth-week-the-strawful-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/2022\/04\/22\/earth-week-the-strawful-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Week: The Strawful Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>STRAWS HAVE EXISTED OVER 7.000 YEARS! <\/strong>From the Mesopotamians to Modern Day Americans, straws were used to filter, drink from. &amp; even help prevent the spread of infectious disease. Straws gained rapid popularity after the rise of fast-food restaurants &amp; even more so after the plastic straw replaced paper in the 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Fact #1: <\/strong><\/em>The production of straws uses valuable resources due to the need to EXTRACT OIL, GAS, &amp; ELECTRICITY. The carbon emissions &amp; pollution from this is detrimental.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Fact #2: <\/strong><\/em>Imagine 570 full-loaded Boeing 747&#8217;5. That&#8217;s how much plastic lives in our oceans &amp; straws are one of the TOP 10 CULPRITS.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Fact #3: <\/strong><\/em>Researchers estimate 90% of marine life have ingested plastic, with straws being especially harmful to SEA TURTLES, SEABIRDS, WHALES, &amp; DOLPHINS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRAWS HAVE EXISTED OVER 7.000 YEARS! From the Mesopotamians to Modern Day Americans, straws were used to filter, drink from. &#038; even help prevent the spread of infectious disease. Straws gained rapid popularity after the rise of fast-food restaurants &#038; even more so after the plastic straw replaced paper in the 1960\u2019s. Fact #1: The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":17366,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17367,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions\/17367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}