{"id":60,"date":"2009-02-28T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-02-28T08:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T12:47:46","slug":"fire-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/fire-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking out from work the other day in Beijing&#8217;s Central Business District, I noticed among the fireworks for the lantern festival that one <strong>\u6469\u5929\u5927\u53a6<\/strong> (skyscraper) in particular had <strong>\u7740\u706b<\/strong> (caught fire).\u00a0 The next question was of course how this <strong>\u706b\u707e<\/strong> (fire disaster)\u00a0 would be dealt with and how long it would be before the <strong>\u6d88\u9632\u961f<\/strong>(fire department) showed up to <strong>\u706d\u706b<\/strong> (put out the fire).\u00a0 Less than an hour passed before this was <strong>\u520a\u767b<\/strong> (published) by the local media and pictures were <strong>\u4e0a\u4f20<\/strong> (uploaded) on to popular websites.\u00a0 My initial thought was that the fire had to do with <strong>\u4fdd\u9669<\/strong> (insurance) reasons, but the official report holds the cause as stemming from <strong>\u70df\u82b1<\/strong> (fireworks) which were misused.\u00a0 One thing is for sure, this event caught the attention of innumerable <strong>\u7f51\u6c11<\/strong> (netizens) in China.<br \/>\nwords<\/p>\n<p>\u6469\u5929\u5927\u53a6 mo2tian1da4sha4 &#8211; skyscraper(s)<br \/>\n\u7740\u706bzhao2huo3 &#8211; to catch fire<br \/>\n\u706b\u707ehuo3zai1 &#8211; fire disaster<br \/>\n\u6d88\u9632\u961fxiao1fang3dui4 &#8211; fire department<br \/>\n\u706d\u706bmie4huo3 &#8211; put out a fire<br \/>\n\u520a\u767b kan1deng1 &#8211; to publish<br \/>\n\u4e0a\u4f20shang4chuan2 &#8211; to upload<br \/>\n\u4fdd\u9669bao3(2)xian3 &#8211; insurance<br \/>\n\u70df\u82b1 yan1hua1 &#8211; fireworks<br \/>\n\u7f51\u6c11 wang3min2 &#8211; netizens (internet users)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking out from work the other day in Beijing&#8217;s Central Business District, I noticed among the fireworks for the lantern festival that one \u6469\u5929\u5927\u53a6 (skyscraper) in particular had \u7740\u706b (caught fire).\u00a0 The next question was of course how this \u706b\u707e (fire disaster)\u00a0 would be dealt with and how long it would be before the \u6d88\u9632\u961f(fire&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/fire-in-beijing\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[179,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-news","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}