{"id":13610,"date":"2018-01-03T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2018-01-03T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T01:11:15","slug":"word-of-the-day-295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/03\/word-of-the-day-295\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cerumen<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More formally, the glop in your ears is called cerumen, and it is made up of the secretions of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1870171\">ceruminous glands<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 specialised sweat glands \u2013 and sebaceous glands in the outer ear canal. Most of these are waxy compounds, which clean the ear canal and protect it from drying out, as well as killing bacteria and trapping foreign bodies like dust and fungal spores. Mixed into that wax are bodily cast-offs like shed skin cells and hair, alongside potent antimicrobials and other chemicals. [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631571-900-the-secrets-of-your-past-that-lurk-inside-your-ears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, \u00a0Christie Wilcox,\u00a0<em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (23 December 2017, paywall)]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cerumen: More formally, the glop in your ears is called cerumen, and it is made up of the secretions of the\u00a0ceruminous glands\u00a0\u2013 specialised sweat glands \u2013 and sebaceous glands in the outer ear canal. Most of these are waxy compounds, which clean the ear canal and protect it from drying \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/03\/word-of-the-day-295\/\"> 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-13610","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\/13610","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=13610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13611,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}