{"id":3076,"date":"2018-07-20T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2018-07-20T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:52:57","slug":"why-the-a-c-is-so-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/07\/20\/why-the-a-c-is-so-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the A\/C is so COLD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3073\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072018-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3073\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072018-1-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why the A\/C is so COLD? .\u00b7\u00b4\u00af&#96;(&gt;\u2582\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072018-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072018-1.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why the A\/C is so COLD? .\u00b7\u00b4\u00af`(&gt;\u2582&lt;)\u00b4\u00af`\u00b7. here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the heat, it&#8217;s the humidity. The cool temps in libraries are a side-effect of the primary reason for the A\/C: to keep books from getting moist. Mold &amp; mildew thrive in moist environments, and when they thrive, they destroy paper. Too keep the books dry, libraries run the A\/C a little more than humans like. Keeping paper dry, in fact, was the reason behind the invention of the first A\/C by Willis Carrier &#8211; read about it here: bit.ly\/Atlantic-AC. Ever notice how the stereotypical librarian image involves a cardigan? Brrr! Librarians agree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the heat, it&#8217;s the humidity. The cool temps in libraries are a side-effect of the primary reason for the A\/C: to keep books from getting moist. Mold &amp; mildew thrive in moist environments, and when they thrive, they destroy paper. Too keep the books dry, libraries run the A\/C a little more than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/07\/20\/why-the-a-c-is-so-cold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why the A\/C is so COLD?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-oneill-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}