{"id":13469,"date":"2015-04-05T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2015-04-10T12:31:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T17:31:17","slug":"200-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/200-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"200 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mount_Tambora_Volcano_Sumbawa_Island_Indonesia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mount_Tambora_Volcano_Sumbawa_Island_Indonesia-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Tambora\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mount_Tambora_Volcano_Sumbawa_Island_Indonesia-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mount_Tambora_Volcano_Sumbawa_Island_Indonesia-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mount_Tambora_Volcano_Sumbawa_Island_Indonesia.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Tambora\" target=\"_blank\">Tambora<\/a>, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa and at that time one of the tallest mountains in Indonesia, erupted violently, propelling a Plinian eruption column up over 18 miles high. Spectacular though it was, the April 5 event was just the warm-up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora\" target=\"_blank\">main show<\/a> five days later, when Tambora uncorked the <a href=\"https:\/\/volcanocafe.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/25\/tambora-200-year-anniversary-of-the-1815-eruption\/\" target=\"_blank\">largest eruption<\/a> observed in historical times, vastly larger than the Pinatubo, Katmai\/Novarupta or Krakatau eruptions. Mount St. Helens in 1980 was a mere hiccup in comparison. The top of the mountain was replaced by a caldera four miles across, and the injection of dust and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere led to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Year_Without_a_Summer\" target=\"_blank\">year without a summer<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/tambora-1815-just-big-eruption\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just how big was the Tambora eruption<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa and at that time one of the tallest mountains in Indonesia, erupted violently, propelling a Plinian eruption column up over 18 miles high. Spectacular though it was, the April 5 event was just the warm-up for the main show five days later, when Tambora uncorked the largest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/200-years-ago-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;200 years ago today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3vf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13506,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions\/13506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}