{"id":447685,"date":"2021-11-06T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T03:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447685"},"modified":"2021-11-06T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:26:13","slug":"beijing-shuts-highways-school-playgrounds-due-to-heavy-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/beijing-shuts-highways-school-playgrounds-due-to-heavy-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing shuts highways, school playgrounds due to heavy pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Friday was forced to close highways and school playgrounds in the capital city Beijing due to heavy pollution. <\/p>\n<p>This comes as China ramps up coal production and faces scrutiny of its environmental record at international climate talks. <\/p>\n<p>The Beijing municipal government has issued a yellow alert for heavy air pollution which came into force from 4 pm Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. Under the country&#8217;s warning system for air pollution, red is the most severe warning. This is followed by orange, yellow and blue. <\/p>\n<p>According to the city&#8217;s weather authorities, unfavourable weather conditions are blamed for the smog blanketing Beijing and neighbouring regions from Wednesday to Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Friday was forced to close highways and school playgrounds in the capital city Beijing due to heavy pollution. This comes as China ramps up coal production and faces scrutiny of its environmental record at international climate talks. The Beijing municipal government has issued a yellow alert for heavy air pollution which came into force from 4 pm Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. Under the country&#8217;s warning system for air pollution, red is the most severe warning. This is followed by orange, yellow and blue. According to the city&#8217;s weather authorities, unfavourable weather conditions are blamed for the smog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}