{"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 Augsburg University, 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 Augsburg University, 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}]}}