{"id":338,"date":"2012-02-14T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-02-19T23:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T23:18:51","slug":"deforestation-is-only-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/14\/deforestation-is-only-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Deforestation is only the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">While roads may bring short-term (and in some cases long-term as well) economic boosts, the end result may negatively affect human health. Unfortunately, numerous newly-constructed roads in the Amazon illustrate this, as can be shown in studies performed by John Hopkins researchers. This\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=19276850\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">article\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">examines the relationship between roads, deforestation, and malaria.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While roads may bring short-term (and in some cases long-term as well) economic boosts, the end result may negatively affect human health. Unfortunately, numerous newly-constructed roads in the Amazon illustrate this, as can be shown in studies performed by John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/14\/deforestation-is-only-the-beginning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6559],"tags":[8434,8427,4392],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease","tag-deforestation","tag-disease-2","tag-malaria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}