{"id":3999,"date":"2013-09-21T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2021-09-21T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:34:23","slug":"remembering-the-new-england-hurricane-september-21-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/09\/21\/remembering-the-new-england-hurricane-september-21-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the New England Hurricane, September 21, 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;3997&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>The New England Hurricane of 1938 was one of the most famous of weather disasters in the region&#8217;s history and for many years the standard upon which all other hurricanes were held.\u00a0 The devastation was enormous: after making landfall as a\u00a0Category\u00a03 hurricane on September 21 it is estimated to have killed between\u00a0682 and 800 people,\u00a0damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at $306\u00a0million ($4.7 billion in 2013).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;3997&#8242;] The New England Hurricane of 1938 was one of the most famous of weather disasters in the region&#8217;s history and for many years the standard upon which all other hurricanes were held.\u00a0 The devastation was enormous: after making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/09\/21\/remembering-the-new-england-hurricane-september-21-1938\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[171,172],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-12v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}