{"id":6227,"date":"2018-08-19T17:44:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2018-08-19T17:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:44:38","slug":"outdoor-summer-cinema-series-movie-cancelled-due-to-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/outdoor-summer-cinema-series-movie-cancelled-due-to-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Summer Cinema Series Movie Cancelled due to Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s installment of Yakima Parks &amp; Recreation&#8217;s Outdoor Summer Cinema Series has been canceled due to poor air quality resulting from smoke generated by Northwest wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lion King&#8221; was scheduled to be shown tonight (Sunday, August 19th) beginning at about 8:30 pm at Chesterley Park.\u00a0 However, due to an Air Quality Alert issued by the Washington State Department of Ecology, the showing of the movie has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Quality Alert was issued at about 8:45 am today and will remain in effect until at least noon tomorrow (Monday, August 20th).\u00a0 Air quality monitoring stations in and around Yakima are reporting air as &#8220;hazardous&#8221; and &#8220;very unhealthy&#8221;.\u00a0 Northerly winds are pushing smoke from wildfires across the Northwest region into the Yakima area.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials are recommending people stay inside with windows and doors closed.\u00a0 People with chronic health conditions and those who need to go outside are recommended to wear a respirator rated at least N-95.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lion King&#8221; was to be the last of the six movies shown as part of Yakima Parks &amp; Recreation&#8217;s 2018 Outdoor Summer Cinema Series.\u00a0 The series has been going on for several years and is a favorite tradition of Yakima area families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s installment of Yakima Parks &amp; Recreation&#8217;s Outdoor Summer Cinema Series has been canceled due to poor air quality resulting from smoke generated by Northwest wildfires. &#8220;The Lion King&#8221; was scheduled to be shown tonight (Sunday, August 19th) beginning at about 8:30 pm at Chesterley Park.\u00a0 However, due to an Air Quality Alert issued by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}