{"id":394929,"date":"2026-04-24T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394929\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:20:14","slug":"these-skyscrapers-are-so-tall-a-wild-new-job-had-to-be-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394929\/","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\/nz\/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":394930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-394929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}