{"id":5906,"date":"2015-02-12T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2015-02-12T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:41:46","slug":"mucus-is-gross-but-here-are-9-things-you-should-know-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/02\/12\/mucus-is-gross-but-here-are-9-things-you-should-know-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mucus Is Gross. But Here Are 9 Things You Should Know About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/02\/12\/mucus-is-gross-but-here-are-9-things-you-should-know-about-it\/spiegel\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5915\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/02\/spiegel-150x148.jpg\" alt=\"spiegel\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5915\" \/><\/a>Vox<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/oma\/jeffrey-spiegel-md-facs\/\">Jeffrey Spiegel<\/a>, MD, otolaryngology<\/h4>\n<p>Mucus is not widely considered a topic for polite conversation. It&#8217;s something to be discreetly blown into a tissue, folded up, and thrown away.<\/p>\n<p>But the simple truth is that without mucus, you wouldn&#8217;t be alive.<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Mucus is essential for the protection of your body,&#8221; says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drspiegel.com\/about-dr-jeffrey-spiegel\/\">Jeffrey Spiegel<\/a>, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon at Boston University. &#8220;It&#8217;s a protective barrier and it allows you to breathe comfortably. If you had no mucus, you&#8217;d be quite sorry you didn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/2\/11\/8013065\/mucus-snot-boogers\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox Jeffrey Spiegel, MD, otolaryngology Mucus is not widely considered a topic for polite conversation. It&#8217;s something to be discreetly blown into a tissue, folded up, and thrown away. But the simple truth is that without mucus, you wouldn&#8217;t be alive. Expert quote: &#8220;Mucus is essential for the protection of your body,&#8221; says\u00a0Jeffrey Spiegel, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}