{"id":4462,"date":"2012-12-18T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:45:42","slug":"lung-mei-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2012\/12\/lung-mei-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye to Lung Mei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Text and photo: Derek Li &amp; Nectar Gan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Public seizes last chance to view diverse and abundant marine life as government presses ahead with fake beach plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Dec_Photofea_Lungmei_2nd-upload_Carmen.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4464\" title=\"Dec_Photofea_Lungmei_2nd upload_Carmen-1\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Dec_Photofea_Lungmei_2nd-upload_Carmen-1-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Dec_Photofea_Lungmei_2nd-upload_Carmen-1-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Dec_Photofea_Lungmei_2nd-upload_Carmen-1-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists and ordinary members of the public have been flocking to Lung Mei Beach before the government implement plans to turn the strip of Tai Po coastline into an artificial swimming beach. As one last-ditch attempt to save the strip, which is abundant with marine life, follows another, people are appreciating the wildlife and saying goodbye, perhaps for one last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1985,72,11],"tags":[157,65,70,156],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-126","category-photo-feature","category-photo-story","tag-conservation","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}