{"id":6748,"date":"2011-10-10T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:49:33","slug":"did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Derms Lie To Pass California Teen Ban?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dermatology industry lobbying groups \u2014 in calling for a ban on teenage use of sunbed centers in California \u2014 testified to state legislators that sunbeds are an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production and that their own use of sunbeds to treat psoriasis should be preserved because no studies show any risk of that procedure \u2014 statements that are factually inaccurate.<\/p>\n

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed the nation\u2019s first under-18 statewide ban of commercial tanning bed usage into law \u2014 legislation that passed the Democratically controlled California House and Senate on largely partisan votes this summer. Senator Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach, sponsored the bill, which is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012.<\/p>\n

Added to the bill Aug. 23 was an amendment stating, \u201cNotwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician or surgeon from prescribing a phototherapy device to a patient of any age.\u201d That was already clear in the bill\u2019s original language \u2014 so why the redundancy?<\/p>\n

Epidemiologist Dr. Mia Papas in June presented data at the World Congress of Epidemiology showing that the World Health Organization data that Lieu used to promote his bill actually indicts medical phototherapy units and not commercial sunbeds. In the WHO report, medical usage of sunbeds doubled melanoma risk for users and that commercial tanning beds, when analyzed without data from home tanning units and medical sunbeds, had no statistically significant increase in risk at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can a legislator and dermatology groups deny that this data exists \u2014 somebody needs to answer that question because their denial was used to pass this bill,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSo not only did they conceal or deny that that data exists, but they added an amendment to the bill to protect phototherapy business.\u201d<\/p>\n

An estimated 150,000 Californians use commercial sunbeds primarily as a cost-effective substitute for medical phototherapy (used primarily to treat the cosmetic disorder psoriasis), according to Smart Tan surveys. The insurance co-pay for a phototherapy session is, in most cases, greater than the cost of a tanning salon visit.<\/p>\n

Dermatology also alleged that sunbeds were an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production because they emit mainly UVA and UVB is what is needed to produce vitamin D.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is either photo biologically ignorant or intentionally misleading,\u201d Levy said. \u201cSunlight is mostly UVA too. And it is without question that sunlight and sunbeds that mimic sunlight are the most efficient vitamin D sources on the planet. Peer-reviewed research has confirmed that. And sunbed users, as a group, have 90 percent higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners. So why do derms have to mislead to make their case? That question also needs to be asked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dermatology alleges that melanoma is the fastest growing cancer for women 25-29 \u2014 a statistic they always offer without pointing out that no cancer is common in that age group and that it is still incredibly rare in that age group.<\/p>\n

Dermatology has also masked the fact that melanoma is increasing most-significantly in men over age 50 \u2014 a group they virtually ignore in public education campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dermatology industry lobbying groups \u2014 in calling for a ban on teenage use of sunbed centers in California \u2014 testified to state legislators that sunbeds are an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production and that their own use of sunbeds to treat psoriasis should be preserved because no studies show any risk of that procedure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nDid Derms Lie To Pass California Teen Ban? - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dermatology industry lobbying groups \u2014 in calling for a ban on teenage use of sunbed centers in California \u2014 testified to state legislators that sunbeds are an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production and that their own use of sunbeds to treat psoriasis should be preserved because no studies show any risk of that procedure \u2014 statements that are factually inaccurate. California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed the nation\u2019s first under-18 statewide ban of commercial tanning bed usage into law \u2014 legislation that passed the Democratically controlled California House and Senate on largely partisan votes this summer. Senator Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach, sponsored the bill, which is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012. Added to the bill Aug. 23 was an amendment stating, \u201cNotwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician or surgeon from prescribing a phototherapy device to a patient of any age.\u201d That was already clear in the bill\u2019s original language \u2014 so why the redundancy? Epidemiologist Dr. Mia Papas in June presented data at the World Congress of Epidemiology showing that the World Health Organization data that Lieu used to promote his bill actually indicts medical phototherapy units and not commercial sunbeds. In the WHO report, medical usage of sunbeds doubled melanoma risk for users and that commercial tanning beds, when analyzed without data from home tanning units and medical sunbeds, had no statistically significant increase in risk at all. \u201cHow can a legislator and dermatology groups deny that this data exists \u2014 somebody needs to answer that question because their denial was used to pass this bill,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSo not only did they conceal or deny that that data exists, but they added an amendment to the bill to protect phototherapy business.\u201d An estimated 150,000 Californians use commercial sunbeds primarily as a cost-effective substitute for medical phototherapy (used primarily to treat the cosmetic disorder psoriasis), according to Smart Tan surveys. The insurance co-pay for a phototherapy session is, in most cases, greater than the cost of a tanning salon visit. Dermatology also alleged that sunbeds were an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production because they emit mainly UVA and UVB is what is needed to produce vitamin D. \u201cThat is either photo biologically ignorant or intentionally misleading,\u201d Levy said. \u201cSunlight is mostly UVA too. And it is without question that sunlight and sunbeds that mimic sunlight are the most efficient vitamin D sources on the planet. Peer-reviewed research has confirmed that. And sunbed users, as a group, have 90 percent higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners. So why do derms have to mislead to make their case? That question also needs to be asked.\u201d Dermatology alleges that melanoma is the fastest growing cancer for women 25-29 \u2014 a statistic they always offer without pointing out that no cancer is common in that age group and that it is still incredibly rare in that age group. 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California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed the nation\u2019s first under-18 statewide ban of commercial tanning bed usage into law \u2014 legislation that passed the Democratically controlled California House and Senate on largely partisan votes this summer. Senator Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach, sponsored the bill, which is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012. Added to the bill Aug. 23 was an amendment stating, \u201cNotwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician or surgeon from prescribing a phototherapy device to a patient of any age.\u201d That was already clear in the bill\u2019s original language \u2014 so why the redundancy? Epidemiologist Dr. Mia Papas in June presented data at the World Congress of Epidemiology showing that the World Health Organization data that Lieu used to promote his bill actually indicts medical phototherapy units and not commercial sunbeds. In the WHO report, medical usage of sunbeds doubled melanoma risk for users and that commercial tanning beds, when analyzed without data from home tanning units and medical sunbeds, had no statistically significant increase in risk at all. \u201cHow can a legislator and dermatology groups deny that this data exists \u2014 somebody needs to answer that question because their denial was used to pass this bill,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSo not only did they conceal or deny that that data exists, but they added an amendment to the bill to protect phototherapy business.\u201d An estimated 150,000 Californians use commercial sunbeds primarily as a cost-effective substitute for medical phototherapy (used primarily to treat the cosmetic disorder psoriasis), according to Smart Tan surveys. The insurance co-pay for a phototherapy session is, in most cases, greater than the cost of a tanning salon visit. Dermatology also alleged that sunbeds were an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production because they emit mainly UVA and UVB is what is needed to produce vitamin D. \u201cThat is either photo biologically ignorant or intentionally misleading,\u201d Levy said. \u201cSunlight is mostly UVA too. And it is without question that sunlight and sunbeds that mimic sunlight are the most efficient vitamin D sources on the planet. Peer-reviewed research has confirmed that. And sunbed users, as a group, have 90 percent higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners. So why do derms have to mislead to make their case? That question also needs to be asked.\u201d Dermatology alleges that melanoma is the fastest growing cancer for women 25-29 \u2014 a statistic they always offer without pointing out that no cancer is common in that age group and that it is still incredibly rare in that age group. 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California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed the nation\u2019s first under-18 statewide ban of commercial tanning bed usage into law \u2014 legislation that passed the Democratically controlled California House and Senate on largely partisan votes this summer. Senator Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach, sponsored the bill, which is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012. Added to the bill Aug. 23 was an amendment stating, \u201cNotwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician or surgeon from prescribing a phototherapy device to a patient of any age.\u201d That was already clear in the bill\u2019s original language \u2014 so why the redundancy? Epidemiologist Dr. Mia Papas in June presented data at the World Congress of Epidemiology showing that the World Health Organization data that Lieu used to promote his bill actually indicts medical phototherapy units and not commercial sunbeds. In the WHO report, medical usage of sunbeds doubled melanoma risk for users and that commercial tanning beds, when analyzed without data from home tanning units and medical sunbeds, had no statistically significant increase in risk at all. \u201cHow can a legislator and dermatology groups deny that this data exists \u2014 somebody needs to answer that question because their denial was used to pass this bill,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSo not only did they conceal or deny that that data exists, but they added an amendment to the bill to protect phototherapy business.\u201d An estimated 150,000 Californians use commercial sunbeds primarily as a cost-effective substitute for medical phototherapy (used primarily to treat the cosmetic disorder psoriasis), according to Smart Tan surveys. The insurance co-pay for a phototherapy session is, in most cases, greater than the cost of a tanning salon visit. Dermatology also alleged that sunbeds were an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production because they emit mainly UVA and UVB is what is needed to produce vitamin D. \u201cThat is either photo biologically ignorant or intentionally misleading,\u201d Levy said. \u201cSunlight is mostly UVA too. And it is without question that sunlight and sunbeds that mimic sunlight are the most efficient vitamin D sources on the planet. Peer-reviewed research has confirmed that. And sunbed users, as a group, have 90 percent higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners. So why do derms have to mislead to make their case? That question also needs to be asked.\u201d Dermatology alleges that melanoma is the fastest growing cancer for women 25-29 \u2014 a statistic they always offer without pointing out that no cancer is common in that age group and that it is still incredibly rare in that age group. Dermatology has also masked the fact that melanoma is increasing most-significantly in men over age 50 \u2014 a group they virtually ignore in public education campaigns.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Did Derms Lie To Pass California Teen Ban? - Smart Tan News","og_description":"Dermatology industry lobbying groups \u2014 in calling for a ban on teenage use of sunbed centers in California \u2014 testified to state legislators that sunbeds are an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production and that their own use of sunbeds to treat psoriasis should be preserved because no studies show any risk of that procedure \u2014 statements that are factually inaccurate. California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed the nation\u2019s first under-18 statewide ban of commercial tanning bed usage into law \u2014 legislation that passed the Democratically controlled California House and Senate on largely partisan votes this summer. Senator Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach, sponsored the bill, which is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012. Added to the bill Aug. 23 was an amendment stating, \u201cNotwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician or surgeon from prescribing a phototherapy device to a patient of any age.\u201d That was already clear in the bill\u2019s original language \u2014 so why the redundancy? Epidemiologist Dr. Mia Papas in June presented data at the World Congress of Epidemiology showing that the World Health Organization data that Lieu used to promote his bill actually indicts medical phototherapy units and not commercial sunbeds. In the WHO report, medical usage of sunbeds doubled melanoma risk for users and that commercial tanning beds, when analyzed without data from home tanning units and medical sunbeds, had no statistically significant increase in risk at all. \u201cHow can a legislator and dermatology groups deny that this data exists \u2014 somebody needs to answer that question because their denial was used to pass this bill,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSo not only did they conceal or deny that that data exists, but they added an amendment to the bill to protect phototherapy business.\u201d An estimated 150,000 Californians use commercial sunbeds primarily as a cost-effective substitute for medical phototherapy (used primarily to treat the cosmetic disorder psoriasis), according to Smart Tan surveys. The insurance co-pay for a phototherapy session is, in most cases, greater than the cost of a tanning salon visit. Dermatology also alleged that sunbeds were an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production because they emit mainly UVA and UVB is what is needed to produce vitamin D. \u201cThat is either photo biologically ignorant or intentionally misleading,\u201d Levy said. \u201cSunlight is mostly UVA too. And it is without question that sunlight and sunbeds that mimic sunlight are the most efficient vitamin D sources on the planet. Peer-reviewed research has confirmed that. And sunbed users, as a group, have 90 percent higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners. So why do derms have to mislead to make their case? That question also needs to be asked.\u201d Dermatology alleges that melanoma is the fastest growing cancer for women 25-29 \u2014 a statistic they always offer without pointing out that no cancer is common in that age group and that it is still incredibly rare in that age group. Dermatology has also masked the fact that melanoma is increasing most-significantly in men over age 50 \u2014 a group they virtually ignore in public education campaigns.","og_url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/","og_site_name":"Smart Tan News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","article_published_time":"2011-10-10T08:00:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-10-17T16:49:33+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-10-10-Did-Derms-Lie-To-Pass-California-Teen-Ban-copy.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"smarttan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmartTan","twitter_site":"@SmartTan","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"smarttan","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/"},"author":{"name":"smarttan","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b"},"headline":"Did Derms Lie To Pass California Teen Ban?","datePublished":"2011-10-10T08:00:53+00:00","dateModified":"2011-10-17T16:49:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/"},"wordCount":514,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-10-10-Did-Derms-Lie-To-Pass-California-Teen-Ban-copy.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/","name":"Did Derms Lie To Pass California Teen Ban? - Smart Tan News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-10-10-Did-Derms-Lie-To-Pass-California-Teen-Ban-copy.jpg","datePublished":"2011-10-10T08:00:53+00:00","dateModified":"2011-10-17T16:49:33+00:00","description":"Dermatology industry lobbying groups \u2014 in calling for a ban on teenage use of sunbed centers in California \u2014 testified to state legislators that sunbeds are an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production and that their own use of sunbeds to treat psoriasis should be preserved because no studies show any risk of that procedure \u2014 statements that are factually inaccurate. California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed the nation\u2019s first under-18 statewide ban of commercial tanning bed usage into law \u2014 legislation that passed the Democratically controlled California House and Senate on largely partisan votes this summer. Senator Ted Lieu, D-Redondo Beach, sponsored the bill, which is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012. Added to the bill Aug. 23 was an amendment stating, \u201cNotwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician or surgeon from prescribing a phototherapy device to a patient of any age.\u201d That was already clear in the bill\u2019s original language \u2014 so why the redundancy? Epidemiologist Dr. Mia Papas in June presented data at the World Congress of Epidemiology showing that the World Health Organization data that Lieu used to promote his bill actually indicts medical phototherapy units and not commercial sunbeds. In the WHO report, medical usage of sunbeds doubled melanoma risk for users and that commercial tanning beds, when analyzed without data from home tanning units and medical sunbeds, had no statistically significant increase in risk at all. \u201cHow can a legislator and dermatology groups deny that this data exists \u2014 somebody needs to answer that question because their denial was used to pass this bill,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cSo not only did they conceal or deny that that data exists, but they added an amendment to the bill to protect phototherapy business.\u201d An estimated 150,000 Californians use commercial sunbeds primarily as a cost-effective substitute for medical phototherapy (used primarily to treat the cosmetic disorder psoriasis), according to Smart Tan surveys. The insurance co-pay for a phototherapy session is, in most cases, greater than the cost of a tanning salon visit. Dermatology also alleged that sunbeds were an \u201cinefficient\u201d source of vitamin D production because they emit mainly UVA and UVB is what is needed to produce vitamin D. \u201cThat is either photo biologically ignorant or intentionally misleading,\u201d Levy said. \u201cSunlight is mostly UVA too. And it is without question that sunlight and sunbeds that mimic sunlight are the most efficient vitamin D sources on the planet. Peer-reviewed research has confirmed that. And sunbed users, as a group, have 90 percent higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners. So why do derms have to mislead to make their case? That question also needs to be asked.\u201d Dermatology alleges that melanoma is the fastest growing cancer for women 25-29 \u2014 a statistic they always offer without pointing out that no cancer is common in that age group and that it is still incredibly rare in that age group. Dermatology has also masked the fact that melanoma is increasing most-significantly in men over age 50 \u2014 a group they virtually ignore in public education campaigns.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-10-10-Did-Derms-Lie-To-Pass-California-Teen-Ban-copy.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-10-10-Did-Derms-Lie-To-Pass-California-Teen-Ban-copy.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-derms-lie-to-pass-california-teen-ban\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Did Derms Lie To Pass California Teen Ban?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","name":"Smart Tan News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization","name":"Smart Tan","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","width":500,"height":164,"caption":"Smart Tan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b","name":"smarttan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"smarttan"},"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13698,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/13698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}