{"id":168601,"date":"2025-08-13T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168601"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:18:14","slug":"5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168601","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons to be grateful for air conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-willed founder of modern Singapore, was once asked what the most important invention of the 20th century was. He didn\u2019t say penicillin, which has saved over 500 million lives, or the nuclear bomb, which has shaped geopolitics like nothing before. He didn\u2019t even say TV!\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/417340\/5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Kuan Yew, the iron-willed founder of modern Singapore, was once asked what the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning.jpg",1200,621,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning-300x155.jpg",300,155,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning-768x397.jpg",640,331,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning-1024x530.jpg",640,331,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning.jpg",1200,621,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning.jpg",1200,621,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning-1024x530.jpg",1024,530,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168601-5-reasons-to-be-grateful-for-air-conditioning-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}