{"id":33372,"date":"2017-01-11T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T08:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hong-kongs-air-is-now-filled-with-smog-blown-from-china"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:00","slug":"hong-kongs-air-is-now-filled-with-smog-blown-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hong-kongs-air-is-now-filled-with-smog-blown-from-china","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Air is Now Filled with Smog Blown From China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hong-kongs-air-is-now-filled-with-smog-blown-from-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bigger question is what happens when it begins to impact it\u2019s other neighbors including Japan and Tiawan?<\/p>\n<p>Bigger question is what happens when it begins to impact it\u2019s other neighbors including Japan and Taiwan?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Hongkongers were forced to breathe China\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nextshark.com\/poem-i-long-to-be-king-dr-zhao-xiaogang-china-air-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\">airpocalypse<\/a> smog over the weekend <\/strong><strong>when monsoon winds from the northeast pushed the poisonous air from the mainland down to the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/2060369\/hong-kong-shrouded-smog-posing-very-high-health\" target=\"_blank\">South China Morning Post<\/a>, Hong Kong\u2019s Environmental Protection Department reported that 11 of 16 stations in different districts recorded Air Quality Health Index readings by Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The districts of Tung Chung and Tuen Mun posted a score of 10, the highest mark in the \u201cvery high\u201d health risk category.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextshark.com\/hong-kong-pollution-from-china-2017\/\">http:\/\/nextshark.com\/hong-kong-pollution-from-china-2017\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger question is what happens when it begins to impact it\u2019s other neighbors including Japan and Tiawan? Bigger question is what happens when it begins to impact it\u2019s other neighbors including Japan and Taiwan? Hongkongers were forced to breathe China\u2019s airpocalypse smog over the weekend when monsoon winds from the northeast pushed the poisonous air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65391,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372\/revisions\/65391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}