{"id":12732,"date":"2013-02-07T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2013-02-07T08:08:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:08:42","slug":"oklahoma-americas-iodine-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/02\/07\/oklahoma-americas-iodine-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma, America&#8217;s Iodine King"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12743\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 245px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Iodine pellets, known as 'prills', the end result of the refining process at Woodward Iodine Corporation in Woodward, Okla. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12743\" title=\"IodinePhoto\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto-409x500.jpg 409w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto-1569x1920.jpg 1569w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto-123x150.jpg 123w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto-620x759.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/02\/IodinePhoto-883x1080.jpg 883w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iodine pellets, known as &#39;prills&#39;, the end result of the refining process at Woodward Iodine Corporation in Woodward, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Iodine is vital. The human body depends on it for cell reproduction. It&#8217;s irreplaceable in medical imaging. There&#8217;s a tiny bit of the element in every LCD TV screen.<\/p><p>The vast majority of the world&#8217;s supply of iodine comes from three places: The Chilean desert, natural gas fields east of Tokyo, and the Woodward Trench in northwest Oklahoma.<\/p><p>The three companies that dominate U.S. iodine production drill into the same geologic formations as energy firms, but make their money off of a substance the oil and gas companies usually throw away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iodine is vital. The human body depends on it for cell reproduction. It&#8217;s irreplaceable in medical imaging. There&#8217;s a tiny bit of the element in every LCD TV screen.The vast majority of the world&#8217;s supply of iodine comes from three places: The Chilean desert, natural gas fields east of Tokyo, and the Woodward Trench in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":12743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[502],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}