{"id":743,"date":"2012-08-17T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=743"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:01:18","slug":"keeping-safe-during-a-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/keeping-safe-during-a-thunderstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping safe during a thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a few thunderstorms over the spring and summer.\u00a0 Are you acting safely during these storms?\u00a0 Test your safety knowledge by identifying the following statements as true or false:<\/p>\n<p>1-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.<\/p>\n<p>2-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightning only strikes under a storm cloud.<\/p>\n<p>3-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trees are safe places under which to duck for cover during lighting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lightning Safety by Environment Canada\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7i-ievcMh7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada provides the answers to the statements above and presents thunderstorm safety tips in this 3-minute video:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a few thunderstorms over the spring and summer.\u00a0 Are you acting safely during these storms?\u00a0 Test your safety knowledge by identifying the following statements as true or false: 1-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightning never strikes in the same place twice. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/keeping-safe-during-a-thunderstorm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,15],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-severe-weather","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}