{"id":5913,"date":"2019-01-30T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2019-01-30T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:55:10","slug":"why-is-it-so-cold-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/30\/why-is-it-so-cold-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so cold in Boston?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5901\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw013019-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5901\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw013019-1-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why is it so cold in Boston?\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw013019-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw013019-1.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why is it so cold in Boston?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>It has always been thus. Actually, it&#8217;s not as cold as it once was. The &#8220;Little Ice Age&#8221; that bedeviled Europe &amp; North America for several hundred years ended at about the onset of the 20th Century. Colonial era Boston was much colder than now. For warmth, I recommend the hot chocolate at El Pelon and a scarf and hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has always been thus. Actually, it&#8217;s not as cold as it once was. The &#8220;Little Ice Age&#8221; that bedeviled Europe &amp; North America for several hundred years ended at about the onset of the 20th Century. Colonial era Boston was much colder than now. For warmth, I recommend the hot chocolate at El Pelon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/30\/why-is-it-so-cold-in-boston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is it so cold in Boston?&#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":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","category-health-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","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=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}