{"id":1291,"date":"2013-10-25T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:31:33","slug":"sara-baby-its-getting-cold-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/10\/25\/sara-baby-its-getting-cold-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara: Baby It&#8217;s Getting Cold Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2013\/04\/SaraEngelsman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1133\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"SaraEngelsman\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2013\/04\/SaraEngelsman-150x150.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2013\/04\/SaraEngelsman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2013\/04\/SaraEngelsman-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2013\/04\/SaraEngelsman.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s starting to get cold in Boston and chances are you\u2019re mentally preparing yourself to start hibernating for the winter. It\u2019s pretty easy from here on out to return home from classes, stay inside and drink hot chocolate\/coffee\/ your hot beverage of choice instead of adventuring around the city. BUT I\u2019m here to try and steer you away from that mindset because although the city gets cold, Boston doesn\u2019t stop! Welcome to the approaching winter season all you Californians\/ Floridians, where we still function regardless of what wrath Mother Nature brings upon us.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let your adventurous side stop just because of the chill! Here are some great events happening around the city in the coming months that I look forward to all year:<\/p>\n<p>-Ghost Tours in Salem, MA<\/p>\n<p><b>Now through Halloween<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-Ice Skating at the Frog Pond on Boston Common<\/p>\n<p><b>mid November<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-Boston Christmas Festival &amp; Gingerbread House Competition<\/p>\n<p><b>Nov 8-10 at Seaport World Trade Center<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b>-Christmas at Newport Mansions<\/p>\n<p>you have to take a trip to Newport, RI for this but it\u2019s worth the drive!<\/p>\n<p>(this is a tour through the Mansions, if you\u2019re into history you\u2019ll love it)<b><br \/>\nstarts November 23<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-Faneuil Hall Christmas Tree Lighting<\/p>\n<p>(also check out BLINK! Light show)<br \/>\n<b>November 23<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>-Boston Ballet Nutcracker<\/p>\n<p><b>November 29- December 29<\/p>\n<p><\/b>-Boston Pops Holiday Show<br \/>\nBoston Symphony Orchestra<\/p>\n<p><b>December 4<sup> <\/sup>-24<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-First Night Boston- Boston\u2019s celebration of the new year<\/p>\n<p><b>December 31<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>(Am I jumping the gun by talking about Christmas before Halloween has even passed? Maybe\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s starting to get cold in Boston and chances are you\u2019re mentally preparing yourself to start hibernating for the winter. It\u2019s pretty easy from here on out to return home from classes, stay inside and drink hot chocolate\/coffee\/ your hot beverage of choice instead of adventuring around the city. BUT I\u2019m here to try and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2013\/10\/25\/sara-baby-its-getting-cold-outside\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sara: Baby It&#8217;s Getting Cold Outside<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,257,44304],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}