{"id":495,"date":"2007-08-02T07:04:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T14:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/dont-tickle-me-elmo\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T14:04:58","slug":"dont-tickle-me-elmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/dont-tickle-me-elmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t tickle me Elmo&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\nSurprise! Is Right: Elmo is contaminated with lead.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/ticklemeelmo.jpg\" alt=\"Surprise! Tickle Me Elmo is contaminated with lead paint.\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisher-price.com\/\">Fisher Price<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.myway.com\/jsp\/nw\/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&#038;feed=ap&#038;src=601&#038;news_id=ap-d8qogp000&#038;date=20070801\">recalled nearly 1 million toys produced by a Chinese manufacturer<\/a>, for what? High levels of lead in the paint. Lead at low levels is a serious threat to the central nervous systems of infants and children. <a href=\"https:\/\/lead-info.com\/\">Learn more about lead poisoning here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis follows closely on the heels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/cpscpub\/prerel\/prhtml07\/07212.html\">Thomas the Train recall<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/cvm\/petfoods.htm\">pet food contamination fiasco<\/a>, and news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/11\/business\/worldbusiness\/11chinacoal.html?ex=1307678400en=e9ac1f6255a24fd8ei=5088partner=rssnytemc=rss\">China commissions at least one new coal-fired power plant<\/a> each week&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMaybe offshoring (outsourcing) from China isn&#8217;t so cheap after all? I have to wonder what the real cost of doing business this way is? What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise! Is Right: Elmo is contaminated with lead. Fisher Price has recalled nearly 1 million toys produced by a Chinese manufacturer, for what? High levels of lead in the paint. Lead at low levels is a serious threat to the central nervous systems of infants and children. Learn more about lead poisoning here. This follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}