{"id":7399,"date":"2015-04-18T07:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2015-04-18T07:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T12:15:50","slug":"sand-nado-beijing-battered-by-blanket-of-red-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7399","title":{"rendered":"Sand-nado &#8211; Beijing Battered By Blanket Of Red Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-17\/sand-nado-beijing-battered-blanket-red-dust\" target=\"_blank\">Sand-nado &#8211; Beijing Battered By Blanket Of Red Dust<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In yet another ripped from the movies-screen-esque event,\u00a0<strong>Beijing was brought to a standstill today as a massive Interstellar-like sandstorm covered the Chinese capital in thick blanket of red dust<\/strong>, sparking social media discussions of the end of the world.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/250301-beijing-sand-storm-dust\/\"><em>As RT reports,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0The China Meteorological Administration issued a yellow sandstorm alert \u2013 the third-most serious danger level, which given the images below, makes us wonder just WTF it takes to get to a level 1 sandstorm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stunning!! In a city of 21 million people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/250301-beijing-sand-storm-dust\/\"><em>As RT reports,<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><strong>Some areas in the city of 21 million recorded air pollution of nearly 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter, which is considered hazardous for people\u2019s health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2015\/04\/20150417_sand2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2015\/04\/20150417_sand2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beijing residents had to wear face masks and goggles to protect themselves from the red sand and avoid injury and respiratory problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sand-nado &#8211; Beijing Battered By Blanket Of Red Dust In yet another ripped from the movies-screen-esque event,\u00a0Beijing was brought to a standstill today as a massive Interstellar-like sandstorm covered the Chinese capital in thick blanket of red dust, sparking social media discussions of the end of the world.\u00a0As RT reports,\u00a0The China Meteorological Administration issued a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2045,130,4813,395,4815,4814],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-dust-storm","tag-health","tag-red-dust","tag-sandstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}