{"id":12855,"date":"2017-11-07T08:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2017-11-07T08:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:20:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/07\/word-of-the-day-264\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Autochthonous<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>(of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists.\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>Geology<\/em><\/span>\u00a0(of a deposit or formation) formed in its present position.<br \/>\nOften contrasted with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/allochthonous\">allochthonous<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/autochthonous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Oxford Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631491-100-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Feedback<\/strong><\/a> column of <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (28 October 2017):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A reader] informs us that King Leopold III of Belgium was a fervent naturalist and traveller. \u201cHe led several expeditions in Africa, Asia and South America among others,\u201d says Anne, and, unlike his infamous grandfather, \u201cwas acclaimed for his defence of nature and of autochthonous populations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autochthonous: (of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists. Geology\u00a0(of a deposit or formation) formed in its present position. Often contrasted with\u00a0allochthonous [Oxford Dictionaries] Noted in the Feedback column of NewScientist (28 October 2017): [A reader] informs us that King Leopold III of Belgium \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/07\/word-of-the-day-264\/\"> 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-12855","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\/12855","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=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions\/12858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}