{"id":96581,"date":"2009-12-23T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2009-12-23T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:09:35","slug":"kazakh-prez-brags-that-his-capital-is-so-cold-that-it%e2%80%99s-germ-free-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96581","title":{"rendered":"Kazakh Prez Brags That His Capital Is So Cold That It\u2019s Germ-Free | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come to Kazakhstan\u2014specifically the ice-cold capital of Astana\u2014<\/span>said Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev in an annual speech yesterday<\/span>. Here is part of his pitch to diplomats and government officials, via Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

“Well today it’s only -30 C (-22 F). It only strengthens our spirit,” Nazarbayev, in power for 20 years, told diplomats at his lavish marble-and-turquoise presidential palace.<\/p>\n

“This city is so sterile. Even germs can’t survive in this weather. So we can enjoy living long lives here. Well, maybe not as long as those of mammoths, but still quite long.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Great success! Nazarbayev thinks Astana is so extreme that he moved Kazakhstan’s capital there in 1997, which makes Astana the second-coldest capital city in the world. Watch your back, Ulaanbaatar!<\/p>\n

Related Content:
\nDiscoblog: Say Nyet<\/em> to Snow! Moscow Mayor Plans to Engineer the Weather<\/a>
\nDiscoblog: Migraine Sufferers\u2019 Redemption: The Weather Does Cause Headaches<\/a>
\nDiscoblog: How to Forecast the Weather from a Half-Mile Underground: Watch for Muons<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come to Kazakhstan\u2014specifically the ice-cold capital of Astana\u2014said Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev in an annual speech yesterday. Here is part of his pitch to diplomats and government officials, via Reuters: “Well today it’s only -30 C (-22 F). It only strengthens our spirit,” Nazarbayev, in power for 20 years, told diplomats at his lavish marble-and-turquoise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96581","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\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}