{"id":3424,"date":"2010-09-20T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/09\/20\/still-want-to-be-an-astronaut-when-you-grow-up\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:52:00","slug":"still-want-to-be-an-astronaut-when-you-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/09\/20\/still-want-to-be-an-astronaut-when-you-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"still want to be an astronaut when you grow up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2010-09\/bulky-tight-fitting-gloves-cause-tough-nails-astronauts-lose-their-fingernails\">Eaaugh.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some astronauts report losing their fingernails on spacewalks because of bulky gloves that cut off circulation and chafe against their hands. To avoid this inconvenience, a couple astronauts have taken to ripping off their own fingernails before reaching orbit.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>Fingernail trauma and other hand injuries are spacewalkers\u2019 biggest complaint, she said. In a recent study of astronaut injuries, at least 22 reported lost fingernails, a phenomenon called fingernail delamination. It happens because of pressure on the fingertips, but researchers also think circulation cutoff could be to blame. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eaaugh. Some astronauts report losing their fingernails on spacewalks because of bulky gloves that cut off circulation and chafe against their hands. To avoid this inconvenience, a couple astronauts have taken to ripping off their own fingernails before reaching orbit. [&#8230;] Fingernail trauma and other hand injuries are spacewalkers\u2019 biggest complaint, she said. In a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/09\/20\/still-want-to-be-an-astronaut-when-you-grow-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;still want to be an astronaut when you grow up?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[196,580,814],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-science","tag-space","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}