{"id":25784,"date":"2018-12-16T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25784"},"modified":"2018-12-16T19:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T19:22:23","slug":"hong-kongs-bamboo-project-gives-material-new-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25784","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s bamboo: Project gives material new purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>Bamboo is synonymous with Hong Kong&#8217;s ever-growing skyline and has been an integral part of the building industry for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite its low cost and eco-friendly nature, local laws were making it irrelevant. But not any more. Now, a group of architects is taking up the challenge to give this sustainable material a new lease of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Sarah Clarke reports from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bamboo is synonymous with Hong Kong&#8217;s ever-growing skyline and has been an integral part of the building industry for centuries. However, despite its low cost and eco-friendly nature, local laws were making it irrelevant. But not any more. Now, a group of architects is taking up the challenge to give this sustainable material a new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}