{"id":877,"date":"2010-05-31T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=877"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:11:44","slug":"forest-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Forest Fires (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of Ottawa awoke this morning to the smell of smoke. The source, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2010\/05\/31\/ottawa-smoke-wildfires.html\">CBC<\/a>, is forest fires from Quebec. I&#8217;m not happy about the lack of certainty in their description, particularly since they also indicated that firetrucks are driving around the city to see if there was something else going on. Hm&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kimhorne\">Kim Horne<\/a> said, &#8220;Is Ottawa on fire?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/smoke-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke haze visible through the front window of my car\" class=\"wp-image-3061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/smoke-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/smoke-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/smoke-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/smoke.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Smoke haze visible through the front window of my car<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Update: The air quality index for Ottawa was 132 (== very poor) today. Normally, at this time of the year, it&#8217;s around 30. Today is not a good day to be doing outdoor excercise.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of Ottawa awoke this morning to the smell of smoke. The source, according to CBC, is forest fires from Quebec. I&#8217;m not happy about the lack of certainty in their description, particularly since they also indicated that firetrucks are driving around the city to see if there was something else going on. Hm&#8230; As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}