{"id":227703,"date":"2010-01-25T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stayhealthyla.org\/blog\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:36:47","slug":"popular-adolescent-choking-game-no-laughing-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227703","title":{"rendered":"Popular Adolescent Choking Game No Laughing Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lphi.org\/CMSuploads\/choking-game-58939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals a risky past time is more popular than previously thought. More than a third of kids have heard of the &#8220;choking game,&#8221; in which a high is achieved by depriving the brain of oxygen through brief strangulation. Public health officials warn that this extremely dangerous &#8220;game&#8221; can lead to brain damage, long-term neurological disability and even death. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/23\/health\/research\/22choke.html?src=twt&amp;twt=nytimeshealth\" >Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A new study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals a risky past time is more popular than previously thought. More than a third of kids have heard of the &#8220;choking game,&#8221; in which a high is achieved by depriving the brain of oxygen through brief strangulation. Public health officials warn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}