{"id":1112,"date":"2015-05-01T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2015-05-01T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T16:21:22","slug":"tambora-eruption-200-years-ago-in-indonesia-affected-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/tambora-eruption-200-years-ago-in-indonesia-affected-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tambora eruption 200 years ago in Indonesia affected the world."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The climate change caused by the Tambora eruption 200 years ago had effects that we still experience today. \u00a0Ever read the novel\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Frankenstein?<\/span> \u00a0Mary Shelley was watching the world die around her when she wrote that classic book. \u00a0It all started on April 10, 1815 when a volcano in Indonesia, called Tambora, erupted and spewed 36 cubic miles of ash and rock into the air. \u00a0The debris blocked sunlight for two years. \u00a0Called the &#8220;year without summer,&#8221; it snowed in June in New England in 1816. \u00a0The cold summer caused worldwide crop failures, followed by global famines. \u00a0The death toll\u00a0from Tambora would eventually rise to more 100,000 lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tambora-eruption-200-years-ago-caldera.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tambora-eruption-200-years-ago-caldera-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tambora eruption 200 years ago caldera\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tambora-eruption-200-years-ago-caldera-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tambora-eruption-200-years-ago-caldera.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/200-years-after-tambora-volcano-eruption-unusual-effects-linger-180954918\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/200-years-after-tambora-volcano-eruption-unusual-effects-linger-180954918\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The climate change caused by the Tambora eruption 200 years ago had effects that we still experience today. \u00a0Ever read the novel\u00a0Frankenstein? \u00a0Mary Shelley was watching the world die around her when she wrote that classic book. \u00a0It all started on April 10, 1815 when a volcano in Indonesia, called Tambora, erupted and spewed 36 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,216,66,94,96,215,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tambora-eruption-200-years-ago-caldera.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}