{"id":18844,"date":"2011-03-16T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18844"},"modified":"2011-03-16T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:08:45","slug":"our-ingenious-adminstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18844","title":{"rendered":"Our Ingenious Adminstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Surgeon-General-Buying-Iodine-Appropriate-118031559.html\">Americans don&#8217;t need to stock up on potassium iodide <\/a>to prevent radiation damage to the thyroid, says California:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State and county officials spent much of Tuesday trying to keep people calm by saying that getting the pills wasn&#8217;t necessary, but then the United States surgeon general supported the idea as a worthy &#8220;precaution.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Americans <em>do <\/em>need to stock up on potassium iodide to prevent radiation damage to the thyroid, says&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin was in the Bay Area touring a peninsula hospital. NBC Bay Area reporter Damian Trujillo asked her about the run on tablets and Dr. Benjamin said although she wasn&#8217;t aware of people stocking up, she did not think that would be an overreaction. She said it was right to be prepared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like all Obama Administration pronouncements, Benjamin&#8217;s will likely have a shelf-life shorter than that of the tablets on which she just caused a run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans don&#8217;t need to stock up on potassium iodide to prevent radiation damage to the thyroid, says California: State and county officials spent much of Tuesday trying to keep people calm by saying that getting the pills wasn&#8217;t necessary, but then the United States surgeon general supported the idea as a worthy &#8220;precaution.&#8221; Americans do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18845,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18844\/revisions\/18845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}