{"id":19555,"date":"2018-03-31T04:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T04:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reveal.prx.org\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2018-03-31T04:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T04:05:42","slug":"poisoned-ignored-and-evicted-the-perils-of-living-with-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2018\/03\/31\/poisoned-ignored-and-evicted-the-perils-of-living-with-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisoned, ignored and evicted: The perils of living with lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>The toxic water of Flint, Michigan, reminded us that lead is a very persistent poison. This week, Reveal investigates the lurking threat of lead from the dust of urban demolitions to the wilds of Wyoming.<\/p>\n\n<p>Hear how contractors help one another cut corners on demolitions, putting kids at risk, while city officials study the problem. Meet a public health nurse who explains why she advises families to choose a homeless shelter over a lead-tainted apartment, and learn how childhood lead poisoning still affects one man decades later. Progress has been made cleaning up lead. But much remains to be done.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/revealnews.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" >revealnews.org<\/a> for more of our reporting.<\/p>\n\n<p>Follow us on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" >fb.com\/ThisIsReveal<\/a> and on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" >@reveal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>And to see some of what you\u2019re hearing, we\u2019re also on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/revealnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" >@revealnews<\/a>.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/reveal.prx.org\/2018\/03\/poisoned-ignored-and-evicted-the-perils-of-living-with-lead\/\">Reveal<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The toxic water of Flint, Michigan, reminded us that lead is a very persistent poison. This week, Reveal investigates the lurking threat of lead from the dust of urban demolitions to the wilds of Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Hear how contractors help one another&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4951,4952,3627,363,879,393,4954,4953,1244,905,4955,1069,4787,4956,4957,4490,4958,296,2511,3971,1573,4179,4959,3641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19556,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions\/19556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}