{"id":11178,"date":"2017-08-23T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T19:55:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/23\/word-of-the-day-208\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Helicity<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine the tiny tornado that forms in your tea as you stir it. The swirl can have three parts: a link, in which one loop passes through the centre of another, like chain links; a writhe, in which a loop gets a kink in it like an unruly garden hose; and a twist, when several streams of water flow around one another, like the strings in a twisted rope.<\/p>\n<p>These three motions combine in a vortex to make up what\u2019s called its helicity &#8230; <em>[&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23531382-900-teacup-tornados-inner-twists-and-writhes-seen-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Teacup tornadoes brew up a storm<\/i><\/a>,&#8221; <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (12 August 2017)<em>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helicity: Imagine the tiny tornado that forms in your tea as you stir it. The swirl can have three parts: a link, in which one loop passes through the centre of another, like chain links; a writhe, in which a loop gets a kink in it like an unruly garden \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/23\/word-of-the-day-208\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11183,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}