{"id":23051,"date":"2016-08-19T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23051"},"modified":"2016-08-19T21:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:13:22","slug":"smoke-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/smoke-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"165 Years of Smoke in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/yofir.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured:\u00a0California&#8217;s smoky Labor Day Weekend 2013. Smoke isn&#8217;t a new phenomenon. Here is a newspaper\u00a0article describing smoke\u00a0165 years ago:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unusual Phenomenon &#8211;\u00a0LOS ANGELES STAR\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0April 20, 1851<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is now about six days that we have in this and the surrounding country been the spectators of unusual phenomenon, which, from its peculiarity, has given occasion to manifold surmises, conjectures, speculations and rumours. The atmosphere has been so filled with smoke as to confine the vision within a small circumference. And as the smoke was wanting in those aerial properties which affect the eyes and nostrils, there were not many who denied the assertion that it was smoke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALIFORNIA SMOKE &amp; POLLUTION<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/california-polluted-2016.html\">STATS<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spare The Air Day was\u00a0called on\u00a0Aug.19, 2016 in Yolo and Solano Counties.<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas issued\u00a0an air quality advisory from\u00a0California&#8217;s\u00a0wildfire 200 miles away.<\/li>\n<li>Doctors for Climate Health Campaign declared California&#8217;s air quality is in critical condition and action must be taken.<\/li>\n<li>Ozone\u00a0exceeded federal standards on 91 days so far this year.<\/li>\n<li>In June, only four days had healthy air across the Southern California basin.<\/li>\n<li>From 2005 through 2010, western states cut ozone-forming air pollutants 21%, but\u00a0a drop was offset by China&#8217;s 21%\u00a0rise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured:\u00a0California&#8217;s smoky Labor Day Weekend 2013. Smoke isn&#8217;t a new phenomenon. Here is a newspaper\u00a0article describing smoke\u00a0165 years ago: Unusual Phenomenon &#8211;\u00a0LOS ANGELES STAR\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0April 20, 1851 It is now about six days that we have in this and the surrounding country been the spectators of unusual phenomenon, which, from its peculiarity, has given occasion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}