{"id":26519,"date":"2019-10-28T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26519"},"modified":"2019-10-28T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:31:54","slug":"word-of-the-day-506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/10\/28\/word-of-the-day-506\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gabion<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>gabion<\/b>\u00a0(from\u00a0<a title=\"Italian language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_language\">Italian<\/a>\u00a0<i>gabbione<\/i>\u00a0meaning &#8220;big cage&#8221;; from Italian\u00a0<i>gabbia<\/i>\u00a0and Latin\u00a0<i>cavea<\/i>\u00a0meaning &#8220;cage&#8221;) is a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Cage (enclosure)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cage_(enclosure)\">cage<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Cylinder (geometry)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cylinder_(geometry)\">cylinder<\/a>, or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and\u00a0<a title=\"Landscaping\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Landscaping\">landscaping<\/a>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in a reply to a letter to <em><strong>Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> (November \/ December 2019, not available online, extracted here):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One [head]stone was rescued from a pile of rocks being used to build the gabions protecting the base of the minaret, another was photographed in a side valley &#8211; the locals who showed it to us did not want it moved &#8211; and two others were in the ministry storeroom for safekeeping &#8211; <em>David Thomas<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabion: A\u00a0gabion\u00a0(from\u00a0Italian\u00a0gabbione\u00a0meaning &#8220;big cage&#8221;; from Italian\u00a0gabbia\u00a0and Latin\u00a0cavea\u00a0meaning &#8220;cage&#8221;) is a\u00a0cage,\u00a0cylinder, or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and\u00a0landscaping.\u00a0[Wikipedia] Noted in a reply to a letter to Archaeology (November \/ December 2019, not available online, extracted here): One \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/10\/28\/word-of-the-day-506\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-26519","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\/26519","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=26519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26520,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions\/26520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}