{"id":6609,"date":"2014-04-22T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T02:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:17:30","slug":"kite-flying-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/kite-flying-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grounding of Hong Kong\u2019s Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kite-flying culture falls victim to urbanisation and regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by\u00a0Thomas Chan, Tracy Cheung, Benny Kung, Jeffrey Loa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Apr_Photo-feature_Kite1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6689 alignnone\" alt=\"Apr_Photo feature_Kite\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Apr_Photo-feature_Kite1.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Apr_Photo-feature_Kite1.jpg 1163w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Apr_Photo-feature_Kite1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Apr_Photo-feature_Kite1-1024x674.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited by Jeffrey Wong<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kites &#8211; inexpensive to buy or make and fun to fly &#8211; were once a familiar sight above the rooftops of urban Hong Kong. But as the city&#8217;s skyline grew higher and regulations to protect air traffic were introduced, they began to disappear from the city&#8217;s skies. Varsity looks at Hong Kong&#8217;s kite-flying culture and talks to those who are still holding on to this aspect of our collective memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1979,72],"tags":[91,53],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-132","category-photo-feature","tag-hk-history","tag-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","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=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21374,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/21374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}