{"id":28245,"date":"2020-04-06T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2020-04-06T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:12:06","slug":"word-of-the-day-552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/06\/word-of-the-day-552\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Metier<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>noun<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.<\/li>\n<li>a field of work or other activity in which one has special ability or training; forte.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/metier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24532750-400-jim-al-khalilis-the-world-according-to-physics-is-a-thrilling-ride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Jim Al-Khalili&#8217;s The World According to Physics is a thrilling ride<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Richard Web, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (28 March 2020, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al-Khalili\u2019s easy turn of phrase and feel for metaphor give us a sense of fundamental physics as a box of delights and woes. His true metier is quantum physics, where he is admirably lucid and even-handed in dealing with the various interpretations that seek to explain its picture of a \u201cfuzzy\u201d reality so at odds with our lived experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metier: noun a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession. a field of work or other activity in which one has special ability or training; forte.\u00a0[Dictionary.com] Noted in &#8220;Jim Al-Khalili&#8217;s The World According to Physics is a thrilling ride,&#8221; Richard Web, NewScientist (28 March 2020, paywall): Al-Khalili\u2019s easy turn of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/06\/word-of-the-day-552\/\"> 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-28245","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\/28245","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=28245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}