{"id":9546,"date":"2013-09-09T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9546"},"modified":"2013-09-09T07:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:08:30","slug":"i-wasnt-kidding-about-being-too-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9546","title":{"rendered":"I wasn&#8217;t kidding about being too clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my August 2nd Not Eudora <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/Not%20Eudora13\/Democracy%20of%20Stupidity.htm\">column<\/a> I joked that the real reason for our health maladies was not vaccinations but too much hygiene or cleanliness&#8230;&#8230;..only I wasn&#8217;t really joking.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2013\/09\/09\/219381741\/from-birth-our-microbes-become-as-personal-as-a-fingerprint\">NPR report<\/a> on the microbes that make us more of an ecosystem than a stand alone critter. If you&#8217;ve heard people are suffering from more allergies and obesity this could be the explanation. And don&#8217;t even get me started on <a href=\"http:\/\/celiacdisease.about.com\/b\/2013\/01\/10\/can-hookworm-infection-cure-celiac.htm\">hookworms<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my August 2nd Not Eudora column I joked that the real reason for our health maladies was not vaccinations but too much hygiene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,70,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9548,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions\/9548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}