{"id":623857,"date":"2026-04-23T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:40:14","slug":"these-skyscrapers-are-so-tall-a-wild-new-job-had-to-be-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623857\/","title":{"rendered":"These skyscrapers are so tall, a wild new job had to be invented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tThese skyscrapers are so tall, a wild new job had to be invented &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>April 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            4 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/these-skyscrapers-are-so-tall-a-wild-new-job-had-to-be-invented.webp.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    In the vertical labyrinth of Shenzhen, a new profession has emerged: that of delivery relay, serving other delivery drivers. These couriers of a new kind are tasked with transporting food orders to the upper floors of China&#8217;s giant towers. This phenomenon is symptomatic of extreme urbanization and the increasing precariousness of work in Asian megacities.<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These skyscrapers are so tall, a wild new job had to be invented &#8211; Futura-Sciences April 23, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-623857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}