{"id":249178,"date":"2026-03-23T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=249178"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:56:09","slug":"itchin-and-sneezin-georgia-pollen-count-hits-6563-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=249178","title":{"rendered":"Itchin\u2019 and Sneezin\u2019: Georgia pollen count hits 6,563 on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Atlanta Allergy &amp; Asthma recorded a total pollen count of 6,563 on Monday, March 23. The organization is Georgia&#8217;s only pollen count authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> The Monday report shows a total pollen count of 6,563, driven almost entirely by tree pollen, which is registering near the top of the scale. Grass, weeds, and mold are all low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Important:<\/strong> Most allergy organizations use a scale that tops out around 1,500. Monday&#8217;s reading of 6,563 is more than four times that level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How This Affects Real People:<\/strong> Those with pollen allergies may experience stronger symptoms on days with counts this high.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Allergy &amp; Asthma recorded a total pollen count of 6,563 on Monday, March 23. The organization is Georgia&#8217;s only pollen count authority. What&#8217;s Happening: The Monday report shows a total pollen count of 6,563, driven almost entirely by tree pollen, which is registering near the top of the scale. Grass, weeds, and mold are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":249182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"large","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[15310,17505],"class_list":["post-249178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-pollen","tag-pollen-count","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}