{"id":13712,"date":"2011-09-15T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13712"},"modified":"2011-09-15T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T12:01:30","slug":"singapore-set-for-hazy-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/singapore-set-for-hazy-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore set for hazy grand prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore looks set for a hazy formula one race next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In July, it emerged that the city-state was worried that forest fires in Indonesia would affect the floodlit skyline when the F1 circus comes to town in late September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are afraid it will disturb the running of the grand prix,&#8221; said an Indonesian official.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just days ahead of the 2011 race, the Indonesian government has turned down help to ease the fires, according to the Jakarta Globe.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore environment minister Vivian Balakrishan told Channel News Asia that help, including fire extinguishing aircraft, has been offered to Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a team on standby to help with putting out fires&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Balakrishan&#8217;s Indonesian counterpart Arif Yuwono responded: &#8220;We don&#8217;t need any help because we already have our own standard procedures for handling disasters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore looks set for a hazy formula one race next weekend. In July, it emerged that the city-state was worried that forest fires in Indonesia would affect the floodlit skyline when the F1 circus comes to town in late September. &#8220;They are afraid it will disturb the running of the grand prix,&#8221; said an Indonesian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,2130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13713,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions\/13713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}