{"id":34753,"date":"2014-07-26T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34753"},"modified":"2014-07-26T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T12:35:03","slug":"river-in-china-mysteriously-turns-bloody-red-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=34753","title":{"rendered":"River in China mysteriously turns bloody red overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday morning. Within an hour, the entire river turned crimson. Residents also said a strange smell wafted through the air.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cThe really weird thing is that we have been able to catch fish because the water is normally so clear,\u201d one local villager commented on China\u2019s microblogging site Weibo.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">Inspectors from the Wenzhou Environmental Protection Bureau said they have not found the cause of the incident, although water samples seem to indicate the suspicious color was a result of illegal dumping in the river.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cWe suspect that somebody dumped artificial coloring in the water because he thought the typhoon yesterday would cause heavy rain, and nobody would notice [the color],\u201d Jianfeng Xiao, Chief of the bureau told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinanews.com\/fz\/2014\/07-25\/6425264.shtml\">China News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cIt turned out there wasn\u2019t heavy rainfall yesterday, so the evidence is left behind,\u201d Xiao said.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">Xiao said there is a paper manufacturer, a food coloring company and clothing-maker a long the river. The bureau is still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">Source: ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color. Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday morning. Within an hour, the entire river turned crimson. Residents also said a strange smell wafted through the air. \u201cThe really weird thing is that we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-34753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}