{"id":830,"date":"2013-03-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/830"},"modified":"2013-03-29T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:00:00","slug":"the-truth-about-hydroponics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/830","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Hydroponics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Can you tell me the history and importance of hydroponics?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from&#32;Estelle Assad of Fairfield, IA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Hydroponics has a lurid and shameful past, one I would be delighted to sharewith you.  As anyone who lived through the seventies will remember, manypeople sought to escape the harsh reality of the workplace by hiding intheir basements and growing certain plants under &#8220;grow lights&#8221;, those longfluorescent tubes which DEA agents can easily identify through drawn shades.These plants stewed in a concoction of nutrients and hormones which were amuch guarded trade secret of their growers.  Most of those self-employedtypes are now incarcerated, or working in the fast food industry.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Can you tell me the history and importance of hydroponics? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/830\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}