{"id":435,"date":"2009-09-15T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-09-15T06:43:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:43:19","slug":"scratch-my-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/scratch-my-back\/","title":{"rendered":"scratch my back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a boon for legions of neo-Hippies across the globe, showering has just been identified as being potentially detrimental to human health. According to the <em>BBC<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8254206.stm\">&#8220;Water spurting from shower heads can distribute bacteria-filled droplets that suspend themselves in the air and can easily be inhaled into the deepest parts of the lungs, say the scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To complicate matters, &#8220;Showers have also been identified as a route for spreading other infectious diseases, including a type of pneumonia called Legionnaires&#8217; disease and chest infections with a bacterium called Pseudomonas aeruginosa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a hygienic person to do in the face of such information? Suggestion &#8211; bathe once a week, preferably with a few naked friends and some antibiotic soap. Sing &#8220;Scratch my back&#8221; by Slim Harpo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a boon for legions of neo-Hippies across the globe, showering has just been identified as being potentially detrimental to human health. According to the BBC, &#8220;Water spurting from shower heads can distribute bacteria-filled droplets that suspend themselves in the air and can easily be inhaled into the deepest parts of the lungs, say the [&hellip;]<\/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-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}