{"id":13352,"date":"2017-12-18T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13352"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:57:46","slug":"word-of-the-day-285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/18\/word-of-the-day-285\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Murmuration<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>A flock of starlings.<\/li>\n<li><em>literary<\/em>\u00a0<em>[mass noun]<\/em> The action of murmuring.<br \/>\n<em>\u2018the murmuration of a flock of warblers\u2019 [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/murmuration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Oxford English Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in a book review of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631540-700-rediscover-the-gift-of-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>A New Map of Wonders<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by\u00a0Caspar Henderson, reviewed by\u00a0Mary Halton, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (2 December 2017, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Henderson\u2019s own sense of wonder at phenomena both natural and manufactured is pervasive, from marvelling at a murmuration of starlings to admiring advances in solar power. Wonder, we then conclude, is a very personal experience, while scientific fact is often presented as a very universal one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murmuration: A flock of starlings. literary\u00a0[mass noun] The action of murmuring. \u2018the murmuration of a flock of warblers\u2019 [Oxford English Dictionaries] Noted in a book review of\u00a0A New Map of Wonders, by\u00a0Caspar Henderson, reviewed by\u00a0Mary Halton, NewScientist (2 December 2017, paywall): Henderson\u2019s own sense of wonder at phenomena both natural \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/18\/word-of-the-day-285\/\"> 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-13352","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\/13352","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=13352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13354,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13352\/revisions\/13354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}