{"id":15126,"date":"2018-04-03T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15126"},"modified":"2018-04-03T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:58:30","slug":"word-of-the-day-348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/03\/word-of-the-day-348\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Stoat<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <b>stoat<\/b> (<i>Mustela erminea<\/i>), also known as the <b>short-tailed weasel<\/b> or simply the <b>weasel<\/b> in <a title=\"Ireland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\">Ireland<\/a> where the <a title=\"Least weasel\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Least_weasel\">least weasel<\/a> does not occur, is a mammal of the <a title=\"Genus\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\">genus<\/a> <i>Mustela<\/i> of the <a title=\"Family (biology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Family_%28biology%29\">family<\/a> <a title=\"Mustelidae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mustelidae\">Mustelidae<\/a> native to <a title=\"Eurasia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurasia\">Eurasia<\/a> and <a title=\"North America\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_America\">North America<\/a>, distinguished from the <a title=\"Least weasel\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Least_weasel\">least weasel<\/a> by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. Originally from Eurasia, it crossed into North America some 500,000 years ago, where it naturalized and joined the notably larger, closely related native <a title=\"Long-tailed weasel\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long-tailed_weasel\">long-tailed weasel<\/a>. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stoat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23731703-600-why-ancient-deer-returned-to-the-sea-and-became-whales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Why ancient deer returned to the sea and became whales<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Colin Barras, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (24 March 2018, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of the most spectacular species now living in the sea have land-living ancestors. Whales are descended from animals similar to deer, while walruses evolved from animals a bit like stoats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoat: The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel or simply the weasel in Ireland where the least weasel does not occur, is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/03\/word-of-the-day-348\/\"> 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-15126","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\/15126","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=15126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15127,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions\/15127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}