{"id":26899,"date":"2019-12-06T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26899"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:39:39","slug":"word-of-the-day-519","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/06\/word-of-the-day-519\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Abseil<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>British<\/em><br \/>\nthe practice of\u00a0descending\u00a0a\u00a0steep\u00a0slope\u00a0by a\u00a0rope\u00a0secured\u00a0from above and\u00a0coiled\u00a0around one&#8217;s body<br \/>\n<em><span class=\"quote\">The first time I went abseiling it was a weird feeling. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/abseiling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Collins Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in\u00a0<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24432560-800-why-the-hunt-for-alien-life-is-under-way-far-beneath-earths-surface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth\u2019s surface<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Donna Lu<em>,\u00a0<strong>NewScientist\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(16 November 2019, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks to the rope-rigging skills of two Italian cavers, we abseil down, slippery with mud, into a long cavern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abseil: British the practice of\u00a0descending\u00a0a\u00a0steep\u00a0slope\u00a0by a\u00a0rope\u00a0secured\u00a0from above and\u00a0coiled\u00a0around one&#8217;s body The first time I went abseiling it was a weird feeling. [Collins Dictionary] Noted in\u00a0\u201cWhy the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth\u2019s surface,\u201d\u00a0Donna Lu,\u00a0NewScientist\u00a0(16 November 2019, paywall): Thanks to the rope-rigging skills of two Italian cavers, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/06\/word-of-the-day-519\/\"> 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-26899","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\/26899","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=26899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26900,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions\/26900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}