{"id":11715,"date":"2017-09-16T09:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2017-09-16T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T14:48:29","slug":"word-of-the-day-230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/16\/word-of-the-day-230\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Becalm<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>to deprive (a sailing vessel) of the wind necessary to move it; subject to a calm :The schooner was becalmed in the horse latitudes for two weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Archaic. to calm; pacify.<em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/becalm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in my previous <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/16\/working-on-venus-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>\u00a0about being becalmed on Venus. The juxtaposition amuses me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becalm: to deprive (a sailing vessel) of the wind necessary to move it; subject to a calm :The schooner was becalmed in the horse latitudes for two weeks. Archaic. to calm; pacify. [Dictionary.com] Noted in my previous post\u00a0about being becalmed on Venus. The juxtaposition amuses me.<\/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-11715","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\/11715","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=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11716,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions\/11716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}