{"id":41348,"date":"2019-10-27T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41348"},"modified":"2019-10-27T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:22:56","slug":"new-delhi-residents-fear-theyll-be-choking-on-smog-instead-of-celebrating-this-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41348","title":{"rendered":"New Delhi residents fear they&#8217;ll be choking on smog instead of celebrating this Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN)<\/cite>People across India are preparing for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. They&#8217;re selling colorful lamps, cleaning and decorating homes, and buying clothes for the celebrations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the capital city New Delhi, residents are also preparing &#8212; by scrambling to buy air purifiers and protesting the use of firecrackers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Diwali has created a persistent pollution problem in India for years. It&#8217;s typically celebrated with firecrackers, which contribute to already massive amounts of smog in many Indian cities &#8212; after <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/07\/asia\/delhi-auto-rickshaw-pollution-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">last year&#8217;s Diwali<\/a>, parts of New Delhi reported levels of pollution almost 40 times those considered &#8220;safe&#8221; by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)People across India are preparing for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. They&#8217;re selling colorful lamps, cleaning and decorating homes, and buying clothes for the celebrations.In the capital city New Delhi, residents are also preparing &#8212; by scrambling to buy air purifiers and protesting the use of firecrackers.Diwali has created a persistent pollution&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348","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=41348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}