{"id":1394,"date":"2023-11-11T22:40:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-heat-gap-dividing-los-angeles-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:40:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:40:52","slug":"the-heat-gap-dividing-los-angeles-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-heat-gap-dividing-los-angeles-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#39;heat gap&#39; dividing Los Angeles &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lBlxubStuT4?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Why are poorer neighbourhoods hotter than wealthier ones? Well, it can be caused by something called a &#8216;heat gap&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In Los Angeles, historic disinvestment in certain areas of the city has created such a &#8216;heat gap&#8217; \u2013 where poorer neighbourhoods experience higher temperatures due to a lack of tree cover, vegetation and shade.<\/p>\n<p>The city and several nonprofits are now trying to close the gap through a variety of urban programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Colleen Hagerty<br \/>\nAnimation by Coraquetal<br \/>\nProduced by Anna Pazos<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lBlxubStuT4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are poorer neighbourhoods hotter than wealthier ones? Well, it can be caused by something called a &#8216;heat gap&#8217;. In Los Angeles, historic disinvestment in certain areas of the city has created such a &#8216;heat gap&#8217; \u2013 where poorer neighbourhoods experience higher temperatures due to a lack of tree cover, vegetation and shade. The city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}