{"id":366,"date":"2015-05-12T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=366"},"modified":"2015-05-12T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:03:47","slug":"dont-look-down-worlds-highest-glass-bottomed-bridge-to-open-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t look down!\u2019: \u2018World\u2019s highest glass-bottomed bridge\u2019 to open in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/zhangjiajie2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-367\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/zhangjiajie2-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's impression of the bridge at Zhangjiajie. Photo: SCMP Pictures \" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/zhangjiajie2-300x178.jpg 300w, wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/zhangjiajie2.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist&#8217;s impression of the bridge at Zhangjiajie. Photo: SCMP Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Attraction will span a canyon in central Hunan province<\/p>\n<p>What is claimed to be the world\u2019s highest and longest bridge with a glass-bottomed walkway is due to open in central China in July, according to state media.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bridge stretching across a canyon in Zhangjiajie in Hunan province will be 430 metres long and is 400 metres high, the China News Service reported.<\/p>\n<p>About 800 people will be able to cross at any one time and the attraction also claims it will have the world\u2019s highest bungee jump, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The deck of the bridge is made up of 99 pieces of 4.8-cm thick glass.<\/p>\n<p>The project cost is 260 million yuan (HK$330 million) and construction work started earlier this year, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>He Huifeng<br \/>\nMonday, 11 May, 2015<\/p>\n<p>South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attraction will span a canyon in central Hunan province What is claimed to be the world\u2019s highest and longest bridge with a glass-bottomed walkway is due to open in central China in July, according to state media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}