{"id":8940,"date":"2019-02-11T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:34:32","slug":"wcco-interviews-assistant-biology-prof-about-the-benefits-of-frigid-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/11\/wcco-interviews-assistant-biology-prof-about-the-benefits-of-frigid-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"WCCO interviews Assistant Biology Prof about the benefits of frigid weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8971\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-11.34.50-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8971 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-11.34.50-AM-300x170.png\" alt=\"Emily Schilling on WCCO\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-11.34.50-AM-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-11.34.50-AM-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-11.34.50-AM.png 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Schilling on WCCO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WCCO featured an Augsburg faculty member in a story about the up side of the recent extreme cold.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Schilling, who teaches biology at Â̲èÖ±²¥, says the hard freeze is good for our great bodies of water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means the spring thaw will likely come later because we have more ice, it takes longer to melt, and that\u2019s really good for our cold water fish species,&#8221; she told WCCO. &#8220;They like the water to stay cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2019\/01\/31\/healthy-fish-ash-borer-eradication-this-cold-snap-has-some-upsides\/\">View the WCCO story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WCCO featured an Augsburg faculty member in a story about the up side of the recent extreme cold. Emily Schilling, who teaches biology at Â̲èÖ±²¥, says the hard freeze is good for our great bodies of water. \u201cIt means the spring thaw will likely come later because we have more ice, it takes longer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}