{"id":32806,"date":"2021-04-26T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32806"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:22:51","slug":"word-of-the-day-676","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/26\/word-of-the-day-676\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chaparral<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>: a thicket of dwarf evergreen oaks<br \/>\n<em>broadly<\/em> : a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees<\/li>\n<li>: an ecological community composed of shrubby plants adapted to dry summers and moist winters that occurs especially in southern California<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/chaparral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/04\/25\/ticks-lyme-beaches\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https:\/\/s2.washingtonpost.com\/car-ln-tr\/320e27d\/6086e70b9d2fda39cecb0c24\/59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3\/46\/68\/6086e70b9d2fda39cecb0c24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches and \u2018pretty much wherever we looked<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Paulina Firozi, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn classic oak woodlands, there\u2019s a fair number of studies. But nobody had looked at the chaparral, which is that scrubby stuff in the hills before it hits the ocean,\u201d [John Aucott, director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center] said. He said the dearth of research in such areas may be because the known reservoir animals don\u2019t really live there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaparral: : a thicket of dwarf evergreen oaks broadly : a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees : an ecological community composed of shrubby plants adapted to dry summers and moist winters that occurs especially in southern California [Merriam-Webster] Noted in &#8220;Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/26\/word-of-the-day-676\/\"> 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-32806","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\/32806","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=32806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32807,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806\/revisions\/32807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}