{"id":12795,"date":"2025-07-11T00:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=12795"},"modified":"2025-07-11T00:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:08:26","slug":"big-rain-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=12795","title":{"rendered":"Big rain in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing was hit with down pour and many areas were flooded.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/flash-flood-warnings-eastern-china-storm-danas-moves-inland-2025-07-09\/\">Reuters<\/a>: China hit by floods, landslides and heat as extreme weather takes its toll by Joe Cash, July 9, 202512:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>Summary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Torrential rains drench large swathes of China<\/li>\n<li>Displacing thousands and exposing China&#8217;s ageing flood defences A high-pressure system is also baking other parts of the country<\/li>\n<li>Extreme weather is increasingly challenging Chinese officials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of my relatives posted a short screenshot of flood in Beijing, it was soon been removed &#8230; for what? Stabilization?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3578-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3578-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3577-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3577-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing was hit with down pour and many areas were flooded. Reuters: China hit by floods, landslides and heat as extreme weather takes its toll&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=12795\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big rain in Beijing<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,18],"class_list":["post-12795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gov-","tag-things-chinese","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12798,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions\/12798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}