{"id":20271,"date":"2014-09-06T22:18:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T03:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20271"},"modified":"2014-09-06T22:18:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T03:18:33","slug":"polar-vortex-begets-baby-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/06\/polar-vortex-begets-baby-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Vortex Begets Baby Boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months after the Polar Vortex covered a good part of American with freezing cold, there appears to be a baby boom,<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2014\/09\/06\/delivery-rooms-brace-for-polar-vortex-baby-boom\/\"> according to one unverified news story:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MINNEAPOLIS<\/strong> (WCCO) \u2013 It\u2019s been nine months since our bitter cold winter ended.<br \/>\nNow, delivery rooms are bracing themselves for a Polar Vortex baby boom.<br \/>\nAll 39 maternity rooms and the NICU are full this weekend at a Des Moines hospital.<br \/>\nDoctors believe the baby bonanza is a result of the polar vortex last December and January.<br \/>\nIn case you forgot, it was one of the snowiest and coldest winters on record.<br \/>\nAugust and September are usually the busiest months for maternity wards, draw your own conclusions why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m holding out for more data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months after the Polar Vortex covered a good part of American with freezing cold, there appears to be a baby boom, according to one unverified news story: MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) \u2013 It\u2019s been nine months since our bitter cold winter ended. Now, delivery rooms are bracing themselves for a Polar Vortex baby boom. All 39 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/06\/polar-vortex-begets-baby-boom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polar Vortex Begets Baby Boom?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5gX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}