{"id":2291,"date":"2018-04-30T06:26:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T10:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:58:21","slug":"why-is-my-poop-brown-and-stinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/30\/why-is-my-poop-brown-and-stinky\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is my poop brown and stinky?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2276\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04302018-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2276\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04302018-5-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Why is my poop brown and stinky?\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why is my poop brown and stinky?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bile from the gall bladder (which helps break up fat) mixes with everything else to impart the usual brown hue, though other colors are certainly possible as well (See <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/PooColors\">bit.ly\/PooColors<\/a> for details). The stink is down to compounds like hydrogen sulfide, indoles, and the appropriately named scatols. See: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/PooSmell\">bit.ly\/PooSmell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bile from the gall bladder (which helps break up fat) mixes with everything else to impart the usual brown hue, though other colors are certainly possible as well (See bit.ly\/PooColors for details). The stink is down to compounds like hydrogen sulfide, indoles, and the appropriately named scatols. See: bit.ly\/PooSmell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,276],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","category-science","tag-poop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}