{"id":15801,"date":"2018-05-21T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15801"},"modified":"2018-05-21T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:24:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/05\/21\/word-of-the-day-366\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Etiolation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Etiolation<\/b>\u00a0<span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups noexcerpt\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/<span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/: 'ee' in 'fleece'\">i\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"'t' in 'tie'\">t<\/span><span title=\"\/i\/: 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/: 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/: primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'l' in 'lie'\">l<\/span><span title=\"\/e\u026a\/: 'a' in 'face'\">e\u026a<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0283\/: 'sh' in 'shy'\">\u0283<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259n\/: 'on' in 'button'\">\u0259n<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0is a process in\u00a0<a title=\"Flowering plant\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flowering_plant\">flowering plants<\/a>\u00a0grown in partial or complete absence of light.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves due to longer internodes; and a pale yellow color (<a title=\"Chlorosis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chlorosis\">chlorosis<\/a>). The development of seedlings in the dark is known as &#8220;skotomorphogenesis&#8221; and leads to etiolated seedlings.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Etiolation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the third part of the tripartite column, &#8220;\u2018<em><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/05\/obamas-legacy-has-already-been-destroyed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;The Weight of This Sad Time&#8217;<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; Andrew Sullivan, <em><strong>New York<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no music. There is no comic relief. There is instead a picture of an etiolated Christianity, a ghost of faith, kept alive only through the lies of the Prosperity Gospel or the cheap techniques of entertainment disguised as spirituality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etiolation: Etiolation\u00a0\/i\u02d0ti\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u0259n\/\u00a0is a process in\u00a0flowering plants\u00a0grown in partial or complete absence of light.\u00a0It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves due to longer internodes; and a pale yellow color (chlorosis). The development of seedlings in the dark is known as &#8220;skotomorphogenesis&#8221; and leads to etiolated seedlings. [Wikipedia] Noted in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/05\/21\/word-of-the-day-366\/\"> 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-15801","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\/15801","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=15801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15804,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions\/15804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}