{"id":78843,"date":"2024-08-13T02:52:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/?p=78843"},"modified":"2024-08-13T02:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:52:39","slug":"racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Negar Fani and Nathaniel Harnett
The Philadelphia Tribune<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"Students
Students walk past Black History Month posters on the Boston College campus in Boston. \/ AP Photo\/Michael Dwyer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Racism steals time from people\u2019s lives \u2014 possibly because of the space it occupies in the mind. In a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, our team showed that the toll of racism on the brain was linked to advanced aging, observed on a cellular level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black women who were more frequently exposed to racism showed stronger connections in brain networks involved with rumination and vigilance. We found that this, in turn, was connected to accelerated biological aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are neuroscientists who use a variety of approaches, including self-reported data and biological measurements like brain scans, to answer our questions about the effects of stressors on the brain and body. We also use this data to inform the development of interventions to help people cope with this stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why it matters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Aging is a natural process. However, stress can speed up the biological clock, making people more vulnerable to aging-related diseases, from cardiovascular disease to diabetes and dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epidemiological studies consistently show that Black people experience these aging-related health problems at an earlier age than white people. New studies also show focal effects of aging on the brain, indicating disparities in brain aging between Black and white populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Race-related stressors, including racial discrimination, affect the rate at which people age on a biological level. These experiences activate the stress response system and have been linked to greater activity in brain regions that process incoming threats. However, until now, researchers in our field have not understood how brain changes linked to racism contribute to accelerated aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Racial discrimination is a ubiquitous stressor that often goes unnoticed. It might look like a doctor questioning a Black patient\u2019s pain level and not prescribing pain medication, or a teacher calling a Black child a \u201cthug.\u201d It is a constant stressor faced by Black people starting at an early age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rumination \u2014 reliving and analyzing an event on a loop \u2014 and vigilance, meaning being watchful for future threats, are possible coping responses to these stressors. But rumination and vigilance take energy, and this increased energy expenditure has a biological cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our study of Black women, we found that more frequent racial discrimination was linked to more connectivity between two key regions. One, called the locus coeruleus, is a deep brain region that activates the stress response, promoting arousal and vigilance. The other is the precuneus, a key node of a brain network that engages when we think about our experiences and internalize \u2014 or suppress \u2014 our emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These brain changes, in turn, were linked to accelerated cellular aging measured by an epigenetic \u201cclock.\u201d Epigenetics refers to changes that happen to our DNA from the environment. Epigenetic clocks assess how the environment affects our aging at a molecular level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher clock values indicate that someone\u2019s biological age is greater than their chronological age. In other words, the space that racist experiences occupy in people\u2019s minds has a cost, which can shorten the life span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What still isn\u2019t known<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although we saw links between racism, brain connectivity changes and accelerated aging, we did not measure coping responses like rumination and vigilance in real time, meaning as people were experiencing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also do not know how other factors such as neighborhood disadvantage, gender and sexuality intersect to influence accelerated aging and related health disparities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our next steps are to use real-time measurement of everyday racism along with physiological measurements and neuroimaging to take a deeper dive into these research questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to know how different types of racial discrimination and coping styles influence brain and body responses. Understanding these issues better can bring more attention to prevention, such as programs that target implicit bias in physicians and teachers. It can also inform interventions like neuromodulation, which involves the use of external or internal devices to stimulate or inhibit brain activity. Neuromodulation can be used as a therapy aid to reduce stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Negar Fani of Emory University and Nathaniel Harnett of Harvard University wrote this article for The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Negar Fani and Nathaniel HarnettThe Philadelphia Tribune Racism steals time from people\u2019s lives \u2014 possibly because of the space it occupies in the mind. In a new study published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25445,7245,907,16999,79],"class_list":["post-78843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biological","tag-black-people","tag-black-women","tag-health-disparities","tag-racism"],"yoast_head":"\nRacism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds - Texas Metro News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Negar Fani and Nathaniel HarnettThe Philadelphia Tribune Students walk past Black History Month posters on the Boston College campus in Boston. \/ AP\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds - Texas Metro News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Negar Fani and Nathaniel HarnettThe Philadelphia Tribune Students walk past Black History Month posters on the Boston College campus in Boston. \/ AP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Texas Metro News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TexasMetroNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-13T07:52:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-13T07:52:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Texas Metro News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Texas Metro News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Texas Metro News\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f2cb97217739937c8e127da0ae5a5e9e\"},\"headline\":\"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-13T07:52:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-13T07:52:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/\"},\"wordCount\":721,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"biological\",\"Black People\",\"black women\",\"Health Disparities\",\"racism\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2024\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/\",\"name\":\"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds - Texas Metro News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-13T07:52:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-13T07:52:39+00:00\",\"description\":\"By Negar Fani and Nathaniel HarnettThe Philadelphia Tribune Students walk past Black History Month posters on the Boston College campus in Boston. \/ AP\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Black lives area\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/\",\"name\":\"Texas Metro News\",\"description\":\"Delivering news you need\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Texas Metro News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/texas-metro-news-thumb.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/texas-metro-news-thumb.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"Texas Metro News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TexasMetroNews\",\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/texasmetronews\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f2cb97217739937c8e127da0ae5a5e9e\",\"name\":\"Texas Metro News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5672194e980528ef1e4548d9ba4fc2?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5672194e980528ef1e4548d9ba4fc2?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Texas Metro News\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds - Texas Metro News","description":"By Negar Fani and Nathaniel HarnettThe Philadelphia Tribune Students walk past Black History Month posters on the Boston College campus in Boston. \/ AP","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:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds - Texas Metro News","og_description":"By Negar Fani and Nathaniel HarnettThe Philadelphia Tribune Students walk past Black History Month posters on the Boston College campus in Boston. \/ AP","og_url":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/","og_site_name":"Texas Metro News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TexasMetroNews","article_published_time":"2024-08-13T07:52:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-08-13T07:52:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Texas Metro News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Texas Metro News","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/"},"author":{"name":"Texas Metro News","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f2cb97217739937c8e127da0ae5a5e9e"},"headline":"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds","datePublished":"2024-08-13T07:52:30+00:00","dateModified":"2024-08-13T07:52:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/"},"wordCount":721,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","keywords":["biological","Black People","black women","Health Disparities","racism"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2024","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/","url":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/","name":"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds - Texas Metro News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","datePublished":"2024-08-13T07:52:30+00:00","dateModified":"2024-08-13T07:52:39+00:00","description":"By Negar Fani and Nathaniel HarnettThe Philadelphia Tribune Students walk past Black History Month posters on the Boston College campus in Boston. \/ AP","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","width":1200,"height":720,"caption":"Black lives area"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/78843\/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes, new study finds"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/","name":"Texas Metro News","description":"Delivering news you need","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#organization","name":"Texas Metro News","url":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/texas-metro-news-thumb.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/texas-metro-news-thumb.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"Texas Metro News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TexasMetroNews","http:\/\/instagram.com\/texasmetronews\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f2cb97217739937c8e127da0ae5a5e9e","name":"Texas Metro News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5672194e980528ef1e4548d9ba4fc2?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f5672194e980528ef1e4548d9ba4fc2?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Texas Metro News"},"url":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Black-lices-area.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78850,"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78843\/revisions\/78850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasmetronews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}