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\n\tWe spent the twentieth century beating measles, polio, and newborn hepatitis B into statistical irrelevance. In 2025, the man who fought hardest against that victory was put in charge of federal vaccine policy. How did this happen? And what is going to happen now?\n<\/p>\n
Vaccines have worked, spectacularly, for a hundred years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s far too easy to forget a war we won so thoroughly that most people alive today have never seen a casualty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, the disease killed an estimated 2.6 million people worldwide every year. Afterward, U.S. case counts fell more than 90 percent within five years, and by the early 1980s, they had dropped by 99 percent. This decline held even through a mid-1970s rebound when vaccination coverage briefly slipped. Smallpox, a disease that racked up a body count in the hundreds of millions in the twentieth century alone, was declared eradicated from the planet in 1980. This may be the only time in human history we have ever actually defeated a disease rather than just managing it. Polio went from paralyzing tens of thousands of American kids every year in the 1950s to hiding out in only a handful of countries because of political conflict. Globally, the WHO\u2019s immunization program is credited with saving something on the order of 150 million lives over the last fifty years; the overwhelming majority of those were infants and children under the age of five.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is not a controversial scientific claim. It\u2019s closer to the idea that infectious diseases are caused by germs rather than swamp vapors or curses. Vaccines don\u2019t just prevent death. A much larger number of people live their lives without disability as a result. Every case of paralytic polio we didn\u2019t get, every child who didn\u2019t go deaf from mumps, and every baby who didn\u2019t develop the liver damage that comes with chronic hepatitis B is a life that doesn\u2019t show up as a morbidity statistic. When people talk about the \u201ccost\u201d of vaccination programs, they sometimes forget the other side of the ledger: the daily count of children who never got sick. How did we ever decide this was a bad idea?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrew Wakefield\u00a0<\/p>\n
One man, a British gastroenterologist named Andrew Wakefield, is almost single-handedly the reason \u201cvaccines cause autism\u201d is a sentence that exists in the English language at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1998, Wakefield published a paper in\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism in only twelve children, with no control group. Twelve. It has since been shown to be a fraud from top to bottom, including undisclosed payments from a lawyer building a case against vaccine manufacturers, manipulated case histories, and ethics violations that got Wakefield stripped of his medical license.\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0fully retracted the paper as \u201cutterly false\u201d in 2010. Most of his coauthors distanced themselves from the paper years before\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0retracted it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Jonathan Swift\u00a0<\/p>\n
None of this mattered, because by the time careful research had gotten around to debunking it, the story had already escaped the lab and gone feral in the press. British and Irish measles vaccination rates cratered, falling as low as 61 percent in parts of London. Inevitably, measles came roaring back hard enough that the UK lost its WHO measles-elimination status for the first time in 2018\u201319, just two years after finally earning it. The UK regained the status in 2021, then lost it again in January 2026\u2014a pattern we might be seeing develop here on the other side of the Atlantic. Paul Offit, a pediatrician who has spent his career watching this unfold, put it about as bluntly as a professional can: \u201cThat paper killed children.\u201d Children were dying of vaccine-preventable diseases because parents declined vaccination based on a fraudulent paper. That\u2019s about as clean a causal chain as epidemiology ever hands you.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The measles vaccine scare hit the U.S. less like a tidal wave and more like a slow-acting toxin. It fed the \u201cvaccine court\u201d litigation boom of the 2000s, which saw nearly 5,000 claims that vaccines caused autism. Every single case failed when the evidence was examined. It\u2019s worth pausing to consider that: the legal system, using a lower evidentiary bar than a peer-reviewed journal, still couldn\u2019t find a single case where this held up. It just doesn\u2019t happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Cochrane review of roughly 14.7\u00a0million\u00a0children found no connection between vaccines and autism. A Danish study followed over 650,000 kids, including those with autistic siblings who were presumably at higher risk, and found nothing. But litigation losses don\u2019t kill beliefs; simply debunking them with evidence is not enough. As of a 2024 survey, roughly one in ten American adults still believe vaccines probably or definitely cause autism, and about a quarter of the public still doesn\u2019t believe the CDC has ever clearly said otherwise. Twenty-eight years of unanimous negative studies, and the belief just sits there. And now it is being fed by the highest medical authority in the land\u2014a branch of the federal government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
RFK Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To be fair to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he did not invent vaccine skepticism. He just climbed on for the ride. For roughly twenty years before he became Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy ran an organization called Children\u2019s Health Defense, whose entire business model was convincing people that vaccines are dangerous, that HIV doesn\u2019t cause AIDS, and, memorably, that airplane contrails are a secret chemical weapons program.\u00a0Scientific American\u00a0ran a piece in 2017 cataloging a decade of vaccine science distortion under his byline. This is not a man who earned his way into the job with an open mind; he came in with a set of beliefs he has been spreading for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kennedy said his own kids were vaccinated, and he told the public that the MMR shot was the most effective way to stop the disease from spreading.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the genuinely strange part, though\u2014the part that should make anyone do a double take: during his confirmation hearings and at times during the current measles outbreak, Kennedy said his own kids were vaccinated and called the MMR shot the most effective way to stop disease spread. Officially, he offers science-backed guidelines the barest support; elsewhere, he questions them and tells people to decide for themselves. In the same news cycle, he\u2019d write an op-ed framing vaccination as a personal choice, suggest on TV that healthy kids can\u2019t die of an infectious disease, or praise a doctor treating measles with cod liver oil and an antibiotic that has no effect on a virus. It\u2019s a strange rhetorical move unless your goal is plausible deniability.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Secretary Kennedy also fired all seventeen members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the independent experts who write the actual vaccine schedule. He justified this by citing a 2009 report claiming 97 percent of its members had financial conflicts of interest. This sounds reasonable until you learn that public health officials pointed out the 97 percent figure was about missing paperwork signatures, not money, and that only one of the seventeen members had a real, disclosed conflict. Then, months after the firing, a peer-reviewed\u00a0JAMA\u00a0study came out showing that conflicts of interest on the committee had fallen from 42.8 percent in 2000 to about five percent by 2024. Secretary Kennedy purged the committee for alleged corruption at the exact historical moment it was cleaner than it had been in a generation. Unfortunately, several of his own hand-picked replacements turned out to be vaccine \u201cskeptics\u201d who were paid expert witnesses in lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Purge, the Panel, and the Fictional Citation\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once Kennedy sat behind the steering wheel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the changes came fast. The new panel\u2019s first real act was voting to strip a preservative called thimerosal out of flu vaccines, based on a presentation from a former colleague of Kennedy\u2019s anti-vaccine group that reportedly cited a study\u00a0that does not exist. Not a flawed study. Not a study since retracted. A study that, as far as anyone can determine, was never published because it was never conducted. That slide was quietly pulled before the final presentation, but the vote happened anyway, thimerosal\u2019s actual decades of safety data notwithstanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By September 2025, the panel terminated its recommendation for the combined MMRV shot in kids under four. By December, it voted to scrap the universal recommendation that newborns get a hepatitis B vaccine at birth\u2014a policy that had driven a 99 percent drop in pediatric hepatitis B cases since 1990\u2014replacing it with a system based on testing the mother\u2019s infection status, a policy known to greatly decrease the uptake of the vaccine. One of the panel\u2019s own members, who voted against the change, said the quiet part out loud: \u201cWe are doing harm by changing this, and I hope the committee accepts responsibility when that harm shows up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In August 2026, the Trump administration released its own \u201cGold Standard\u201d guidelines by executive order. Among other changes, it recommends splitting the MMR into separate shots to be given at separate visits, even though\u00a0no single-disease vaccines for measles, mumps, or rubella are licensed in the United States\u00a0and there is no scientific evidence of any benefit to splitting them. The order\u2019s own fact sheet leans on the one argument in this whole saga that might sound reasonable to a layperson: that the U.S. recommends more vaccine doses than any peer nation. That\u2019s true, and it\u2019s also meaningless. The vaccine schedule is based on what diseases we are trying to protect against and how our health system works. More on that later.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This executive order triggered an exodus among career health officials. The CDC director was ousted in August. The FDA\u2019s top vaccine official resigned, writing that the administration wanted subservient confirmation of its preferred narrative rather than actual transparency. Nine former CDC directors, spanning both parties, wrote publicly that the agency\u2019s shakeup was unlike anything the country had experienced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We can skip the theoretical debate about what happens when you weaken a vaccine schedule, because now we are running the experiment on our own children.<\/p>\n
So far, several medical and scientific organizations have decided that it is worth taking up this fight. The American Academy of Pediatrics sued over the ACIP overhaul. In March 2026, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, finding the government had disregarded the scientific process and undermined the integrity of its own actions. The new committee\u2019s votes were stayed. HHS has since appealed the ruling to the First Circuit. This is an ongoing story and worth following in the news.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Measles, Meet 2026: A Controlled Trial You Didn\u2019t Ask For\u00a0<\/p>\n
We can skip the theoretical debate about what happens when you weaken a vaccine schedule, because now we are running the experiment on our own children.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The U.S. declared measles eliminated in 2000. In January 2025, an outbreak started in an under-vaccinated Mennonite community in West Texas, where kindergarten measles vaccine rates had fallen to 77 percent\u2014well below the 95 percent needed for herd immunity against a virus this contagious. By the time Texas declared its local outbreak over in August, it had logged 762 cases. The CDC tallied 2,289 cases across 44 states and nearly 50 separate outbreaks last year, the worst record in 25 years. Three Americans died. All three were unvaccinated; two were children. So far this year (writing in September 2026), there have been 3,134 cases\u2014the highest annual total in more than 35 years. And this time, nearly 1,000 cases in South Carolina show that it won\u2019t be confined to one insular community. No 2026 death has been officially confirmed yet, but Pennsylvania reported two measles-associated deaths on August 25, and\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reported that Secretary Kennedy himself asked his own CDC director to strip any reference to them from the agency\u2019s public case tally while their cause is \u201cunder review.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Secretary Kennedy\u2019s initial public response to the first child\u2019s death was to describe the outbreak as \u201cnot unusual,\u201d and to claim, incorrectly, that hospitalized patients were mostly there for quarantine rather than because they were struggling to breathe. Infectious disease specialists pushed back immediately and specifically: the death was preventable, full stop. Describing a first pediatric measles death in a decade as business as usual is not a scientific position; it\u2019s a statement of belief. Meanwhile, real children were showing up in Texas hospitals with vitamin A toxicity because their parents had been told, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that vitamin A was a near-miraculous measles treatment. It is not. It has a narrow, legitimate role for the rare child who is already deficient. It is not a substitute for a vaccine with decades of safety data behind it. Using it as a treatment poisoned kids who were already sick with a dangerous disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Doing the Math\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before universal hepatitis B vaccination, about 18,000 American infants and children were infected every year. The policy of giving it to all children at birth decreased this number by 99 percent between 1990 and 2019. A policy that delays this by testing the mother first sounds reasonable but runs directly into the reality that testing takes time, results get lost, and follow-through is not guaranteed. Move the vaccination rate down even modestly and you are looking at thousands of preventable chronic infections a year, each one requiring a lifetime of monitoring, potential liver disease, and costs that dwarf the price of the shot it replaced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Measles math is even less forgiving. The virus is one of the most contagious pathogens known to exist. Every case will infect 8 to 18 others in an unprotected population. That\u2019s why the herd-immunity threshold\u2014the amount of the population that needs to be vaccinated to prevent spread\u2014sits at roughly 95 percent. Most U.S. states have now slipped below this. With a documented case-fatality rate in the 2025 outbreak of roughly one to three deaths per thousand cases, and a much greater number suffering pneumonia or encephalitis (brain infection) severe enough for hospitalization, the honest forecast isn\u2019t one dramatic national epidemic. It\u2019s what we\u2019re already seeing: a steady toll of smaller, geographically scattered outbreaks, each one arriving after a community\u2019s coverage dips below the threshold. One unsettling part of this is that tracking immunity levels is the work done by epidemiologists rather than cabinet secretaries. Many of those scientists were on the ACIP staff whose jobs were \u201creorganized\u201d out of existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What do other countries do?\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the claims of the August 2026 \u201cGold Standard\u201d executive order is that other countries recommend fewer vaccines against different diseases on different schedules.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is based on several easy-to-understand reasons. Different countries are burdened with different diseases and have differing resources to combat them. If TB is prevalent, then the BCG vaccine is often used\u2014not so in the U.S. In South Korea and Japan, Japanese encephalitis is common, so a vaccine against it is routine. So far, it isn\u2019t here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before the 2026 executive overhaul, the U.S. schedule recommended vaccination against 18 diseases. A\u00a0STAT News\u00a0analysis of 38 countries put the average at 14 diseases. Several wealthy peer nations were close behind the old U.S. number: Greece recommends 17, Germany and the Netherlands cover 14 to 15, and South Korea recommends 18. The UK, after adding rotavirus, RSV, and a combined chickenpox shot over the past two years, covers essentially the same list as the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d report was found to cite studies that don\u2019t exist, in a pattern researchers flagged as characteristic of unedited generative-AI output.<\/p>\n
There is exactly one wealthy country that is an outlier: Denmark, which vaccinates against 10 diseases. Curiously, one of the authors of the \u201cGold Standard\u201d order is a dual U.S.-Danish citizen who trained there. Comparing a country with a population of six million, a single-payer health system, and national electronic health records to one with 343 million\u2014including tens of millions of uninsured\u2014is not good epidemiology. For example, Denmark can vaccinate only at-risk pregnant women against RSV rather than all children, as is the case in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the actual answer to why countries differ: not because there is any evidence that more vaccines or more diseases covered in one vaccine are dangerous. Many countries have decided that they just can\u2019t afford vaccination against some diseases like flu and rotavirus. Every country in this comparison, Denmark included, still universally vaccinates against the diseases that actually kill and disable children at scale\u2014measles, pertussis, and polio. Nobody is skipping those. Which answers the question of outcomes too: there are no major differences in schedule for the diseases the whole world has agreed to fight. But decreasing this schedule will matter a great deal. Kate O\u2019Brien, WHO\u2019s director of immunization, put it about as plainly as an international health official ever does: \u201cWhen we stop using the vaccines, these diseases are coming back. There\u2019s no ambiguity about that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a final irony worth reviewing. By cutting the schedule to 11 diseases to resemble a supposed international norm, the new U.S. schedule doesn\u2019t land near that norm but drops below nearly every country in the 38-country analysis\u2014ahead of only Denmark and Vietnam, and now behind Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, China, and Guinea-Bissau, a West African nation nowhere near the United States\u2019 economic weight class. The U.S. didn\u2019t converge with its peers; rather, it became the new outlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An Intellectual Vaccine\u00a0<\/p>\n
This ongoing story highlights another epidemic that I think we desperately need to be vaccinated against. News media have been infected with a \u201cbalance bias.\u201d This is the same trap that led to the spread of the Wakefield hoax back in 1998. Back then, the media inflated a 12-person study into a national panic. Now, they are giving equal time to a fringe political point of view against the massive weight of an effective scientific consensus. An advocacy group\u2019s talking points are given the same presentation as research-supported scientific evidence. The public is being left to \u201cdecide for themselves,\u201d or even worse, \u201cdo their own research.\u201d Opinions are held equal to experts. And here\u2019s a distinctly modern wrinkle: The administration\u2019s own \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d report was found to cite studies that don\u2019t exist, in a pattern researchers flagged as characteristic of unedited generative-AI output, complete with a citation format traceable to a specific AI company\u2019s tools. Wakefield only needed a fraudulent lab and a compliant journal to fake credibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bottom Line\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is a pattern here. Every individual decision\u2014firing a clean committee for alleged corruption, pulling a preservative based on a nonexistent study, ending a birth-dose policy that had driven a real disease toward the vanishing point, and rewriting a federal website to say the opposite of what the evidence says\u2014points in the same direction.\u00a0We are moving away from safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We achieved the eradication of smallpox and the near-elimination of measles through a slow, unglamorous accumulation of evidence, regulation, and expertise nobody paid much attention to until ignorance started dismantling it. We may be the victims of our own successes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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CODA: The Making and Unmaking of Andrew Wakefield\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrew Wakefield\u2019s measles theory didn\u2019t start with vaccines. He had been a well-known transplant surgeon when he noticed that the lesions of Crohn\u2019s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition, looked something like the lesions that can occur when measles infects the gut. He managed to overlook the fact that measles also causes identical lesions in the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs\u2014tissues with nothing to do with Crohn\u2019s disease. Rather than testing to see if the idea was wrong, he went looking for evidence it was right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1993, he claimed to find measles virus in 13 of 15 gut samples, confirming his hunch. However, no other lab has ever replicated this finding, including, notably, a molecular biologist inside Wakefield\u2019s\u00a0own\u00a0research group who used more sensitive, specific methods and found nothing. The original result is now understood to have come from antibodies that weren\u2019t actually measles-specific\u2014a false positive dressed up as a discovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two years later, he extended the claim from finding wild measles virus in the gut to finding the vaccine strain itself. This led him erroneously to think that if the natural virus could harm the gut, perhaps the weakened version in the live MMR vaccine could too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1996, he filed a patent for a laboratory test to detect the virus\u2014wild or vaccine strain\u2014in bowel tissue as a diagnostic for Crohn\u2019s and ulcerative colitis. The test had no value unless doctors came to accept that a vaccine-derived measles virus persisting in the gut was real and worth testing for. He filed the application from his home address rather than his university\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In February 1996, a lawyer named Richard Barr was constructing a lawsuit against MMR manufacturers on behalf of parents who believed the vaccine had harmed their children. He hired Wakefield on retainer at \u00a3150 an hour. Wakefield ultimately collected \u00a3435,643 plus expenses\u2014close to $900,000 today\u2014for research to support that litigation. He disclosed this to neither\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0nor his own coauthors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Describing a first pediatric measles death in a decade as business as usual is not a scientific position; it\u2019s a statement of belief.<\/p>\n
At that time, Wakefield extended his claims that the measles vaccine was the cause of Crohn\u2019s disease to also assert that it was responsible for the increasing incidence of autism. To justify his hypothesis connecting gut damage to the brain, he promoted a long-simmering theory of \u201calternative\u201d medicine known as the \u201cleaky gut\u201d hypothesis: that inflamed intestines \u201cleak\u201d undigested proteins into the bloodstream that cross into the brain and trigger developmental regression. This hypothesis, the one piece of the theory trying to link the vaccine to autism, has never been demonstrated at any point, before or after.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When he applied for funding for the study that was ultimately published in\u00a0The Lancet, he already asserted the conclusion: \u201cThe evidence is undeniably in favour of a specific vaccine induced pathology.\u201d The children in the study weren\u2019t an ordinary clinical sample. Journalist Brian Deer later established that eleven of the twelve had been steered to Wakefield through anti-MMR campaign groups tied to Barr\u2019s lawsuit. Several had documented developmental problems prior to their vaccination, contradicting the paper\u2019s claim that they\u2019d been developing normally until the shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Slowly, as is often the case with good research, each hypothetical link in this causal chain was tested and found to be broken. No measles virus in Crohn\u2019s tissue, no measles virus in the guts of autistic children, and no leaky-gut pathway to the brain that anyone could show. Wakefield\u2019s patented measles gut test hadn\u2019t followed from evidence that vaccines were dangerous. It had preceded the evidence\u2014which he then spent the next decade trying, and failing, to manufacture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
None of this surfaced for years.\u00a0The Lancet\u2019s reviewers missed it. The press ran the story exactly as pitched: a lone doctor blowing the whistle on a vaccine cover-up. It took\u00a0The Sunday Times\u00a0reporter Brian Deer, digging on his own initiative from 2003 onward, to track down medical records, court filings, and funding documents Wakefield never intended to surface. Deer\u2019s first expos\u00e9 ran in February 2004; ten of Wakefield\u2019s twelve coauthors formally retracted the paper\u2019s interpretation within weeks. Wakefield did not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The official reckoning took six more years. Britain\u2019s General Medical Council opened its investigation in 2007 and ran the longest fitness-to-practice hearing in its history. It concluded in January 2010, finding against Wakefield on more than 30 charges, including dishonesty and a dozen counts of \u201ccallous disregard\u201d for the children. This included: general anesthesia, colonoscopies, lumbar punctures, and barium X-rays that weren\u2019t clinically indicated.\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0fully retracted the paper, and Wakefield\u2019s license to practice was revoked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has never been criminally charged. A regulatory fraud finding isn\u2019t a conviction, and losing his license didn\u2019t stop him from working. He relocated to Austin, Texas, in 2001, years ahead of the GMC\u2019s ruling, and ran a clinic there treating children for his invented diagnosis until he resigned in 2010. He went on to write and direct the anti-vaccine documentary\u00a0Vaxxed, which Robert De Niro initially programmed into the Tribeca Film Festival. Nearly three decades after the paper, he remains a headline draw on the anti-vaccine conference circuit\u2014not as a discredited researcher in exile, but as the founding martyr of a movement his own fraud helped create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We spent the twentieth century beating measles, polio, and newborn hepatitis B into statistical irrelevance. In 2025, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-869203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}