{"id":223147,"date":"2010-01-24T18:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/01\/24\/heavy-smoke-clogs-haitian-sky-at-dusk\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:38:27","slug":"heavy-smoke-clogs-haitian-sky-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/223147","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Smoke Clogs Haitian Sky at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few nights, at dusk, a film, a haze of fog fills the air stifling the lungs and irritating the eyes.\u00a0 From our vantage point at the Fox Haiti bureau, you can see the skyline is covered in a layer of gray, obscuring the view of the majestic coastline.\u00a0 The choking smoke has become a necessity to prevent disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9509 aligncenter\" title=\"gailey2\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/01\/gailey2-259x194.jpg\" alt=\"gailey2\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Garbage and debris has piled up in the streets and in the number of tent cities across the city. And with Haiti\u2019s government completely crippled there is no one to organize clean up, so people across the city have taken to burning their trash and fecal matter in hopes of maintaining sanitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9508 aligncenter\" title=\"gailey\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/01\/gailey-259x194.jpg\" alt=\"gailey\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another grim cause for the smoke in the air is the burning of bodies in the foothills surrounding the city where mass graves have been dug and tens of thousands of bodies have been thrown in and burned to cut down on the chance of disease spreading.\u00a0While people try to get back to some sense of their daily lives, the smoke is a harsh reminder of their reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few nights, at dusk, a film, a haze of fog fills the air stifling the lungs and irritating the eyes.\u00a0 From our vantage point at the Fox Haiti bureau, you can see the skyline is covered in a layer of gray, obscuring the view of the majestic coastline.\u00a0 The choking smoke has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}