{"id":16439,"date":"2018-06-30T20:07:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T01:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16439"},"modified":"2018-06-30T20:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T01:08:25","slug":"word-of-the-day-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/30\/word-of-the-day-380\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Copromancy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Copromancy<\/b> is the art of prognostication based on examining feces. Copromancy has a long history, and is part of <a title=\"Traditional Chinese medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Traditional_Chinese_medicine\">traditional Chinese medicine<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ayurveda\" href=\"https:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Ayurveda\">Ayurveda<\/a>. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Copromancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RationalWiki<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23831831-200-feedback-how-a-rare-axolotl-found-salvation-among-mexican-nuns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Feedback<\/em><\/a> column of <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (23 June 2018, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Feedback hasn\u2019t given much thought to copromancy since \u201cDr\u201d Gillian McKeith, who pored over potties like horoscopes, was flushed from our screens. Yet the art of fortune-smelling endures.<\/p>\n<p>During last week\u2019s summit in Singapore, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was reported to have brought his own portable toilet, to prevent foreign agents from capitalising on his leaks. With good reason: during a visit to Moscow in 1949, Chinese leader Mao Zedong\u2019s excreta were swiped by Soviet spies hoping to divine his personality traits. A rare occasion when staff can be congratulated for going through the motions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And again, same column:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MORE mystery droppings: residents of the Canadian town of Kelowna are keeping one eye on the skies after sewage twice rained down, creating a sort of Rorschach blot test for jobbing copromancers. Suspicion has fallen on aircraft bound for a nearby airport. Whether the plane responsible was anxious or angry is still unknown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copromancy: Copromancy is the art of prognostication based on examining feces. Copromancy has a long history, and is part of traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. [RationalWiki] Noted in the Feedback column of NewScientist (23 June 2018, paywall): Feedback hasn\u2019t given much thought to copromancy since \u201cDr\u201d Gillian McKeith, who pored \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/30\/word-of-the-day-380\/\"> 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-16439","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\/16439","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=16439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16441,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16439\/revisions\/16441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}