{"id":27090,"date":"2019-12-25T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27090"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:43:52","slug":"word-of-the-day-526","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/25\/word-of-the-day-526\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rafter<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">In Toms River, N.J., they have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2019\/11\/08\/theyre-worse-than-dogs-theyre-dangerous-wild-turkeys-taking-over-in-toms-river\/\">terrorized<\/a>\u00a0an over-55 community, attacking cars and pecking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/08\/gang-of-turkeys-causes-chaos-in-new-jersey-town\/\">kiddie pools<\/a>\u00a0unto deflation. While flocks (a group of wild turkeys is called a rafter) have left their notable\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SERVPRO_Reilly\/status\/1193688505664311296\">calling cards<\/a>\u00a0in communities in New Jersey, they have crashed through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocala.com\/news\/20190301\/florida-wild-turkey-crashes-through-truck-windshield-and-lives\">windshields<\/a>\u00a0in Florida,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/franklinpolice\/status\/1065025427641643014?lang=en.\">pecked their<\/a>\u00a0way into police stations in Massachusetts, and in Utah become such a nuisance that 500 were rounded up and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoornews.com\/2019\/03\/04\/wild-turkeys-indeed-hundreds-of-nuisance-gobblers-rounded-up-in-northern-utah\/\">relocated<\/a> to the deep woods.\u00a0<em>[&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2019\/12\/24\/wild-turkey-menace-angry-birds-are-pecking-cars-deflating-kiddie-pools-harassing-elderly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wild turkey menace: Angry birds are pecking cars, deflating kiddie pools and harassing the elderly<\/a>,&#8221; Laura Reiley, <\/em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several sources suggest that a group of wild turkeys is actually a flock, while a rafter is a group of domestic turkeys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafter: In Toms River, N.J., they have\u00a0terrorized\u00a0an over-55 community, attacking cars and pecking\u00a0kiddie pools\u00a0unto deflation. While flocks (a group of wild turkeys is called a rafter) have left their notable\u00a0calling cards\u00a0in communities in New Jersey, they have crashed through\u00a0windshields\u00a0in Florida,\u00a0pecked their\u00a0way into police stations in Massachusetts, and in Utah become \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/25\/word-of-the-day-526\/\"> 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-27090","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\/27090","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=27090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27091,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27090\/revisions\/27091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}