{"id":613,"date":"2005-02-04T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=613"},"modified":"2005-02-04T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T12:10:00","slug":"what-is-this-world-coming-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2005-02\/613-what-is-this-world-coming-to","title":{"rendered":"What is this World coming to???"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following HORRIFYING<\/b> bit of news appeared in my e-mail inbox this morning:<\/p>\n

A SMOG ADVISORY* has been issued by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for the following forecast regions:<\/p>\n

For: Friday February 4, 2005<\/p>\n

Belleville – Quinte – Northumberland
\nBrockville – Leeds and Grenville
\nCity of Hamilton
\nCity of Ottawa
\nCity of Toronto
\nCornwall – Morrisburg
\nDunnville – Caledonia – Haldimand
\nElgin
\nHalton – Peel
\nHuron – Perth
\nKingston – Prince Edward
\nLondon – Middlesex
\nNiagara
\nOxford – Brant
\nPeterborough – Kawartha Lakes
\nPrescott and Russell
\nSarnia – Lambton
\nSimcoe – Delhi – Norfolk
\nStirling – Tweed – South Frontenac
\nWaterloo – Wellington
\nWindsor – Essex – Chatham – Kent
\nYork – Durham
\nAdvisories will remain in effect until further notice.<\/p>\n

For more details visit the Air Quality Ontario website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the smog episode, individuals may experience eye irritation. Heavy outdoor exercise may cause respiratory symptoms such as coughing or shortness of breath. People with heart or lung disease including asthma may experience a worsening of their condition.<\/p>\n

* A Smog Advisory means that there is a strong likelihood that there may be poor air quality within the next 24 hours due to fine particulate matter.<\/i><\/p>\n

WINTER<\/b> SMOG??? How’s that for a commentary on the sad state the world has become?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following HORRIFYING bit of news appeared in my e-mail inbox this morning:<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}