{"id":12998,"date":"2017-11-21T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:02:01","slug":"word-of-the-day-273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-273\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Palimpsest<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>:writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased<\/li>\n<li>:something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface<br \/>\n<span class=\"t\">Canada \u2026 is a\u00a0<span class=\"mw_t_wi\">palimpsest<\/span>, an overlay of classes and generations.<\/span>\u00a0\u2014Margaret Atwood<br \/>\ntoo short a time to get to know the\u00a0palimpsest\u00a0of Genevan societies, let alone those of Switzerland \u2014George Steiner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/palimpsest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em>Editing the Human Germline: Groundbreaking Science and Mind-Numbing Sentiment<\/em>,&#8221; Kenneth W. Krause, quoting Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR gene-editing pioneer, <em><strong>Skeptical Inquirer<\/strong><\/em> (November \/ December 2017, not apparently online yet):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Humans had never before had a tool like CRISPR, and it had the potential to turn not only living people&#8217;s genomes but also all future genomes into a collective palimpsest upon which any bit of genetic code could be erased and overwritten depending on the whims of the generation doing the writing &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Typos mine]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palimpsest: :writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased :something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface Canada \u2026 is a\u00a0palimpsest, an overlay of classes and generations.\u00a0\u2014Margaret Atwood too short a time to get to know \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-273\/\"> 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-12998","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\/12998","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=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}