{"id":4357,"date":"2016-11-06T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2016-11-06T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T18:25:19","slug":"are-you-sick-this-may-be-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Are you sick? This may be why."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4356\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/\u00a9-Rockport-Ambient-air-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4356\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/\u00a9-Rockport-Ambient-air-web.jpg\" alt=\"AEP's Rockport power plant is one of the dirtiest plants in the nation. Built nearly forty years ago, with minimum pollution controls, it is a 2600 Megawatt behemoth that sends its power to northeastern Indiana dan southern Michigan while the people of the Tri-State suffer all its huge levels of pollution. \u00a9 2016 BlairPhotoEVV\" width=\"864\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/\u00a9-Rockport-Ambient-air-web.jpg 864w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/\u00a9-Rockport-Ambient-air-web-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/\u00a9-Rockport-Ambient-air-web-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AEP&#8217;s Rockport power plant is one of the dirtiest plants in the nation. Built nearly forty years ago, with minimum pollution controls, it is a 2600 Megawatt behemoth that sends its power to northeastern Indiana and southern Michigan while the people of the Tri-State suffer all its huge levels of pollution. \u00a9 2016 BlairPhotoEVV<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is where we live. Do you know someone with cancer, or maybe its a heart attack or a stroke. It could be just a chronic but life threatening condition like asthma. Or, as recently studies have indicated, air pollution induced Alzheimers disease. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whatever it is, the reason could well be the enormous level of pollution we are forced to breathe each day just so other places can flip the switch and completely lack the understanding that they are causing us severe health problems. Aerial Photo of the AEP Rockport Power Plant: \u00a9 2016 BlairPhotoEVV.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where we live. Do you know someone with cancer, or maybe its a heart attack or a stroke. It could be just a chronic but life threatening condition like asthma. Or, as recently studies have indicated, air pollution &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=4357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}