{"id":12936,"date":"2017-10-31T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2017-10-31T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:03:41","slug":"the-climate-event-that-helped-create-frankenstein-and-the-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/the-climate-event-that-helped-create-frankenstein-and-the-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The climate event that helped create Frankenstein and the bicycle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Halloween! Or if you are a Calvinist like me, Happy Reformation Day! Here is an interesting story from <em>Paris Review<\/em> on the eruption of Mount Tambora 201 years ago and the &#8220;Year without a Summer&#8221; that brought freezing conditions and atmospheric gloom to much of the Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 The conditions led Mary Shelley and company to sit around the fire in Switzerland telling stories instead of hiking in the mountains, leading to the writing of &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; and the creation of some excellent paintings by those who saw the spectacular volcanic sunsets. You can read it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/25\/year-without-summer\/\">https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/25\/year-without-summer\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2651\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jialiang Gao, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Halloween! Or if you are a Calvinist like me, Happy Reformation Day! Here is an interesting story from Paris Review on the eruption of Mount Tambora 201 years ago and the &#8220;Year without a Summer&#8221; that brought freezing conditions and atmospheric gloom to much of the Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 The conditions led Mary Shelley and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}