{"id":699,"date":"2013-06-21T07:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=699"},"modified":"2013-06-21T07:13:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:13:34","slug":"singapore-smog-and-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/singapore-smog-and-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore &#8211; Smog and Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haze from fires in Indonesia blanketing Singapore could persist for weeks or longer, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday, as the smoke drove air quality to &#8220;&#8221;hazardous&#8221;&#8221; levels and disrupted business and travel in the region. Illegal burning of forests and other land on Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra island to clear space for palm oil plantations is a chronic problem during the June to September dry season. Pollution levels in the normally pristine city-state have shattered records set in 1997, raising diplomatic tensions and concerns about the economic impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haze from fires in Indonesia blanketing Singapore could persist for weeks or longer, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday, as the smoke drove air quality to &#8220;&#8221;hazardous&#8221;&#8221; levels and disrupted business and travel in the region. Illegal burning of forests and other land on Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra island to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}