{"id":13344,"date":"2017-12-20T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13344"},"modified":"2017-12-20T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:21:17","slug":"word-of-the-day-286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/20\/word-of-the-day-286\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carbuncle<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Pathology<\/em>. a painful circumscribed inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, resulting in suppuration and sloughing, and having a tendency to spread somewhat like a boil, but more serious in its effects.<\/li>\n<li>a gemstone, especially a garnet, cut with a convex back and a cabochon surface.<\/li>\n<li>Also called <strong>London brown<\/strong>. a dark grayish, red-brown color. <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/carbuncle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heard during a conversation with my Arts Editor, who, to paraphrase, said &#8220;Some Christmas decorations are &#8216;festoonery&#8217;, and some are &#8216;carbuncles.'&#8221; I am unsure just which of the above definitions would apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbuncle: Pathology. a painful circumscribed inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, resulting in suppuration and sloughing, and having a tendency to spread somewhat like a boil, but more serious in its effects. a gemstone, especially a garnet, cut with a convex back and a cabochon surface. Also called London brown. a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/20\/word-of-the-day-286\/\"> 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-13344","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\/13344","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=13344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13345,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344\/revisions\/13345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}