{"id":1597,"date":"2006-07-19T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/19\/spare-the-air\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:15","slug":"spare-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/19\/spare-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, July 20, will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/sparetheair.org\/\">spare the air day<\/a> in the Bay Area. The ground-level ozone (smog) has been worse of late because of the high temperatures and no wind. Things you can do tomorrow to help:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Spare the Air Days, we ask Bay Area residents to fight pollution by driving less, taking public transportation, trip-linking, walking, biking, choosing not to use gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment, and avoiding polluting household products. People who are especially sensitive to pollution are advised to limit their time outdoors, particularly in the afternoon hours. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Travel is <em>free<\/em> all day on the following Bay Area transportation providers<\/strong>:<br \/>\nACE<br \/>\nAC Transit<br \/>\nAirBART<br \/>\nAlameda Harbor Bay<br \/>\nAlameda Oakland Ferry<br \/>\nBART<br \/>\nBenicia Breeze<br \/>\nCaltrain<br \/>\nCloverdale Transit<br \/>\nCounty Connection<br \/>\nDumbarton Express<br \/>\nEmery Go Round<br \/>\nFairfield\/Suisun Transit<br \/>\nGolden Gate Ferry<br \/>\nGolden Gate Transit<br \/>\nMuni<br \/>\nPetaluma Transit<br \/>\nRio Vista Delta Breeze<br \/>\nSamTrans<br \/>\nSanta Rosa CityBus<br \/>\nSonoma County Transit<br \/>\nTri Delta Transit<br \/>\nUnion City Transit<br \/>\nVacaville City Coach<br \/>\nVTA<br \/>\nThe VINE<br \/>\nWestCAT<br \/>\nWheel<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about air quality management at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baaqmd.gov\/\">Bay Area Air Quality Management District<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, July 20, will be a spare the air day in the Bay Area. The ground-level ozone (smog) has been worse of late because of the high temperatures and no wind. Things you can do tomorrow to help: On Spare the Air Days, we ask Bay Area residents to fight pollution by driving less, taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-regional","category-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12134,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/12134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}