{"id":36772,"date":"2021-06-23T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36772"},"modified":"2021-06-23T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:58:15","slug":"pandemic-baby-bust-births-drop-by-fastest-rate-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36772","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic baby bust: Births drop by fastest rate in 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The number of American women who gave birth last year fell precipitously over 2019, as provisional government data show a national baby bust getting worse during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0report\u00a0from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found births in the United States declined 4 percent between 2019 and 2020, the steepest annual decline since 1973.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of American women who&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36773,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36772\/revisions\/36773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}