{"id":66649,"date":"2026-07-17T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66649"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:51:07","slug":"pap-smear-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66649","title":{"rendered":"PAP Smear Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PAP_Smear_Irony.jpg\" alt=\"PAP Smear Irony\" width=\"667\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PAP_Smear_Irony.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PAP_Smear_Irony-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Young women are told to get a Pap smear every 3 years to \u2018prevent\u2019 cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>But the brush used to scrape the cervix is sterilized with ethylene oxide .. a known cancer-causing chemical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young women are told to get a Pap smear every 3 years to \u2018prevent\u2019 cervical cancer. But the brush used to scrape the cervix is sterilized with ethylene oxide .. a known cancer-causing chemical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66651,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66649\/revisions\/66651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}