{"id":591,"date":"2010-10-09T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T07:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2010-10-09T15:38:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T07:38:18","slug":"yes-there-is-pollution-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/10\/09\/yes-there-is-pollution-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, There is Pollution Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc04823.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-592\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc04823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc04826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-594\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc04826.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>Yesterday was a day when pollution ruled making the skies murky. \u00a0One of the things we have noticed this time in Changzhou is that there are fewer days of air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo above, all the tall buildings and most of the other buildings did not exist when we left Changzhou in June, 2008. \u00a0This was all covered with many small market gardens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-595\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsc04820.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In spite of the smog, I did manage a few photos that indicate a healthier air quality, a photo of a rose and one of new leaves growing on a tree. \u00a0It amazes us that we see so many newly planted areas where before was only densely packed cement communities. \u00a0The ugly, squat four story buildings are being replaced with tall apartment buildings leaving room for parks and walkways. \u00a0Green is in for China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a day when pollution ruled making the skies murky. \u00a0One of the things we have noticed this time in Changzhou is that there are fewer days of air pollution. In the photo above, all the tall buildings and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/10\/09\/yes-there-is-pollution-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,38,73,75,100,105,123,176,217,238],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-environment","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-going-green","tag-jiangsu","tag-pollution","tag-teaching-esl","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}