{"id":25118,"date":"2019-06-15T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25118"},"modified":"2019-06-15T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T02:34:02","slug":"word-of-the-day-482","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/06\/15\/word-of-the-day-482\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Conurbation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a city area containing a large number of people, formed by various towns growing and joining together:<br \/>\n<em>the conurbations of Tokyo and Osaka<br \/>\n[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/conurbation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> <em>Feedback<\/em> column (1 June 2019):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cases of measles continue to soar in the US, following a record dip in the number of vaccinated children that has left\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/25\/world\/europe\/children-measles-vaccine.html\">millions unprotected against the potentially deadly disease<\/a>. If Stickland\u2019s opinions are at all representative of his constituents, subscribers to the post-Enlightenment order may wish to steer clear of this part of the Dallas-Fort Worth conurbation. Ignorant paranoia looks to be contagious, and as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D67uzLlXsAAIIHG.jpg:large\"><i>Houston Chronicle<\/i>\u00a0put it in a recent cartoon<\/a>, there\u2019s no vaccine for that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conurbation: a city area containing a large number of people, formed by various towns growing and joining together: the conurbations of Tokyo and Osaka [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in the NewScientist Feedback column (1 June 2019): Cases of measles continue to soar in the US, following a record dip in the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/06\/15\/word-of-the-day-482\/\"> 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-25118","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\/25118","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=25118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25119,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118\/revisions\/25119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}