{"id":13455,"date":"2017-12-25T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13455"},"modified":"2017-12-25T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:28:57","slug":"word-of-the-day-288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/25\/word-of-the-day-288\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Depletion gilding<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the [golden] objects were initially subjected to \u201cdepletion gilding,\u201d in which copper is removed from the surface through hammering, annealing, or both, producing a golden surface that belies the metal\u2019s true contents. This gilding was later deliberately removed, bringing out the copper\u2019s pinkish tones. \u201cWe suggest that at a particular moment, it was desirable for an object to be golden, and at a later point, it was desirable to have the gilding removed,\u201d says Martin\u00f3n-Torres. He adds that red has been associated with the feminine in the region, so objects may have been turned pink when a woman took ownership of them or when a female owner entered puberty. <em>[&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/issues\/283-1801\/trenches\/6195-trenches-colombia-nahuange-rose-gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pink Standard<\/a>,&#8221; Daniel Weiss, <strong>Archaeology<\/strong> (Jan\/Feb 2018)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonus word!<\/p>\n<p><em>Annealing<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Annealing, in metallurgy and materials science, is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable. It involves heating a material above its recrystallization temperature, maintaining a suitable temperature, and then cooling. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Annealing_(metallurgy)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depletion gilding: All the [golden] objects were initially subjected to \u201cdepletion gilding,\u201d in which copper is removed from the surface through hammering, annealing, or both, producing a golden surface that belies the metal\u2019s true contents. This gilding was later deliberately removed, bringing out the copper\u2019s pinkish tones. \u201cWe suggest that \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/25\/word-of-the-day-288\/\"> 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-13455","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\/13455","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=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}