{"id":750,"date":"2017-11-17T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.awplife.com\/aneeq-premium\/?p=750"},"modified":"2019-07-13T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T09:59:04","slug":"city-lights-night-glows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/2017\/11\/17\/city-lights-night-glows\/","title":{"rendered":"City Lights Night Glows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The industrial age transformed cities, setting them aglow with light. In the late 1800s, as part of a revitalization of Paris, urban planner Georges-Eug\u00e8ne Haussmann had 20,000 gas lamps installed along its streets.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>He reportedly followed the motto \u201clight before all else.\u201d Since then, the City of Light moniker has stuck for Paris\u2014and two dozen others have claimed it as well, such as turn-of-the-century Buffalo, New York, with its newly illuminated avenues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>Changing technologies have made cities ever brighter, as lights have gone from whale oil to gas to electric to LED. But those advances came with a consequence\u2014light pollution. About 80% of us live in an area that\u2019s bathed in artificial light at night. In North America and Western Europe, that number shoots up to 99%. Light pollution impacts both nature and humans, affecting our sleep cycles and even the hunting patterns of nocturnal animals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>As cities around the world convert to LEDs, which use significantly less electricity than conventional incandescent bulbs, that\u2019s also led to a discovery.\u00a0One recent study\u00a0suggests that LEDs used in streetlights\u00a0exacerbate the disruptive effects\u00a0of glare with their high-intensity blue light.<\/p>\n<p>*This content is not real and for Demo purpose only<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industrial age transformed cities, setting them aglow with light. In the late 1800s, as part of a revitalization of Paris, urban planner Georges-Eug\u00e8ne Haussmann had 20,000 gas lamps installed along its streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-glow","tag-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awplife.com\/demo\/aneeq-premium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}