{"id":33709,"date":"2021-07-04T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/04\/in-karachi-hot-weather-is-normal-but-44c-feels-like-youre-going-to-die"},"modified":"2021-07-04T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T06:15:13","slug":"in-karachi-hot-weather-is-normal-but-44c-feels-like-youre-going-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33709","title":{"rendered":"In Karachi, hot weather is normal \u2026 but 44C feels like you\u2019re going to die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a doctor in a big city hospital I am part of a privileged class with air con and water. But millions have neither<\/p>\n<p>Karachi\u2019s heat hits you like a wall when you wake up in the morning. When you are up and getting changed, and the humidity hits you in the chest, you realise it\u2019s going to be really hot today. But it\u2019s another day, so you grab your bag and go to work.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jul\/01\/nowhere-is-safe-say-scientists-as-extreme-heat-causes-chaos-in-us-and-canada\">Nowhere is safe, say scientists as extreme heat causes chaos in US and Canada<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/04\/in-karachi-hot-weather-is-normal-but-44c-feels-like-youre-going-to-die\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a doctor in a big city hospital I am part of a privileged class with air con and water. But millions have neitherKarachi\u2019s heat hits you like a wall when you wake up in the morning. When you are up and getting changed, and the humidity hits you in t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[326,65,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33710,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33709\/revisions\/33710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}