{"id":15120,"date":"2018-07-27T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15120"},"modified":"2018-07-27T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:47:28","slug":"tower-of-the-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/07\/tower-of-the-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tower of the Winds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when I was traveling in Athens, Greece, I visited this well-known archeological site known as the &#8220;Tower of the Winds&#8221;. When it was built, it had sundials, a water clock and a weather observing system, which makes it most likely the oldest weather station in the world. Today <em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> posted a story about the Tower of the Winds and brought back good memories to me. You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/tower-of-the-winds?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=e4312edaaf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_27&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f36db9c480-e4312edaaf-66385617&amp;ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_7_27_2018)&amp;mc_cid=e4312edaaf&amp;mc_eid=2e1044e189\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15121\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/tower-of-the-winds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15121\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/tower-of-the-winds-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/tower-of-the-winds-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/tower-of-the-winds-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/tower-of-the-winds.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Andreas Trepte, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, when I was traveling in Athens, Greece, I visited this well-known archeological site known as the &#8220;Tower of the Winds&#8221;. When it was built, it had sundials, a water clock and a weather observing system, which makes it most likely the oldest weather station in the world. Today Atlas Obscura posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":15121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15120","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\/15120","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=15120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15122,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions\/15122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}