{"id":2232,"date":"2011-02-24T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2011-02-24T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:03:49","slug":"air-pollution-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/air-pollution-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Beijing_smog_comparison_August_2005.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smog in Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a4\/Beijing_smog_comparison_August_2005.webp\/800px-Beijing_smog_comparison_August_2005.webp\" title=\"Smog in Beijing\" width=\"640\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Courtesy Bobak\/Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A surge of orders from Beijing over the last couple of days caught our attention. According to the customers, some from different Embassies there, the air quality in Beijing is the worst they have seen at this moment. <\/p>\n<p>The Independent from UK posted &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/index-of-air-quality-in-the-worlds-major-cities-february-23-2223229.html\">Index of air quality in the world&#8217;s major cities<\/a>&#8221; which compiled data from AirNow, CITEAIR, and the American Embassy in Beijing. It confirmed that the Beijing air is the worst at the moment compared to cities like Hong Kong, Shanghai and New Delhi. <\/p>\n<p>Particulate pollution, rising temperatures and a lack of wind caused the stifling smog, which reduced visibility in parts of the city to just 200 metres (yards), the Beijing weather bureau said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>The American embassy in Beijing rated it as &#8220;Hazardous&#8221; on the 21st of February. Traveler going to Beijing is strongly advised to carry a good mask (seal your face).<br \/>\nHopefully the situation will be improved when the wind starts to blow later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surge of orders from Beijing over the last couple of days caught our attention. According to the customers, some from different Embassies there, the air quality in Beijing is the worst they have seen at this moment. The Independent from UK posted &#8220;Index of air quality in the world&#8217;s major cities&#8221; which compiled data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[18,367,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-2232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-release","7":"category-pollution","8":"tag-air-pollution","9":"tag-bad-air-day","10":"tag-beijing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}