{"id":9322,"date":"2016-07-01T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=9322"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:30:31","slug":"video-page-arunachalam-muruganantham-indias-menstruation-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/video-page-arunachalam-muruganantham-indias-menstruation-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Page: Arunachalam Muruganantham: India&#8217;s Menstruation Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/maYFoZVvDiM?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A short documentary on India&#8217;s menstruation man, Arunachalam Muruganantham, who wore an artificial uterus, was left by his wife for five years, and was called a pervert by the neighbours \u2013 all in his pursuit to create cheap yet effective sanitary napkins for women who cannot afford safe menstrual hygiene products.<\/p>\n<p>The pads he went on to create cost 50% less and are used by 877 brands in 27 Indian states. The machine he built to make them has been imported by 17 countries, and in a bid to keep the pricing low, Muruganantham has refused to sell his patent.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short documentary on India&#8217;s menstruation man, Arunachalam Muruganantham, who wore an artificial uterus, was left by his wife for five years, and was called a pervert by the neighbours \u2013 all in his pursuit to create cheap yet effective sanitary napkins for women who cannot afford safe menstrual hygiene products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":9323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,705,13,7],"tags":[707,296,435,774,123,706,441],"class_list":{"0":"post-9322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-science-and-sexuality","9":"category-videopage","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-innovation","12":"tag-marriage","13":"tag-menstruation","14":"tag-sanitary-napkins","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-sustainability","17":"tag-technology"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16696,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions\/16696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}